Political and religious extremists tend to share flawed epistemologies, or theories of knowledge. Those on the far right have a naive realism that views access to truth as unproblematic. Those on the far left have a radical skepticism that rejects our understanding of truth. Fr. Richard Rohr proposes a "nondual critique" of reality that embraces common sense understandings of truth while going beyond empirical and logical ways of knowing to include the robustly relational. This critical realism views relationship values as the proper ends, rather than means like institutions, dogmas, or politics.