The binary view is so rooted in our broader culture that its “gravitational pull” can capture even those who seek to distance themselves from it. Social constructionism, for example, can be a promising starting point for a critique of the binary view. But one variant of constructionism that has been very influential in the policy world, that of Anne Schneider and Helen Ingram, paradoxically rests upon the binary view. Similarly, Thomas Kuhn’s work undermines the commonsensical claim that we have easy access to “brute” facts, which is a vital support for the binary view. But many in the social sciences, and a number of leading policy theorists, have taken Kuhn’s concept of “incommensurability” to mean that paradigms are conceptual prisons from which escape is unlikely, and between which dialogue will probably be fruitless. The possibility of critical dialogue between people holding different “worldviews” and different normative commitments is thus discounted in advance. The chapter also critiques variants of “historical revisionism” that appear to break with the binary view, but reproduce a key element of it, by insulating nationalist values from all questioning and positing them as a dogmatic basis for history curricula.