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Back to SearchGeorge Will makes the conservative case against democracy
Episode 239
It’s a good time to be a Republican. But it’s a bad time, George Will argues, to be a conservative. Hence his new, 700-page manifesto, The Conservati…
6 years, 7 months ago
What deliberative democracy can, and can’t, do (with Jane Mansbridge)
Episode 238
Every time I do an episode on polarization, I get a few emails asking: What about deliberative democracy? Couldn’t that be an answer?
Deliberative dem…
6 years, 8 months ago
Rod Dreher on America’s post-Christian culture war [CORRECTED]
Episode 237
[A quick note about this episode - we have fixed an error that caused some listeners to hear overlapping audio in the first portion of the show. Than…
6 years, 8 months ago
White threat in a browning America (Jennifer Richeson re-air)
Episode 236
This conversation with Yale psychologist and MacArthur genius Jennifer Richeson first appeared a year ago, and it’s one of my favorites. But I wanted…
6 years, 8 months ago
Behind the panic in white, Christian America
Episode 235
About seven in 10 American seniors are white Christians. Among young adults, fewer than three in 10 are. During the span of the Obama administration,…
6 years, 8 months ago
An enlightening, frustrating conversation on liberalism (with Adam Gopnik)
Episode 234
“Liberalism is as distinct a tradition as exists in political history, but it suffers from being a practice before it is an ideology, a temperament a…
6 years, 8 months ago
The cognitive cost of poverty (with Sendhil Mullainathan)
Episode 233
If you’re a Parks and Rec fan, you’ll remember Ron Swanson’s Pyramid of Greatness. Right there at the base sits “Capitalism: God’s way of determining…
6 years, 8 months ago
Failing towards Utopia
Episode 232
Nice Try! is a new podcast from Curbed and the Vox Media Podcast Network that explores stories of people who have tried to design a better world, and…
6 years, 8 months ago
Why liberals and conservatives create such different media (with Danna Young)
Episode 231
The debate over polarized media can make the two ecosystems sound equivalent. One is left, the other right, but otherwise they’re the same. That coul…
6 years, 8 months ago
Stacey Abrams and Lauren Groh-Wargo (Live!)
Episode 230
“The phrase ‘identity politics’ is a weaponization of the Democrats’ structural advantage in elections from now until eternity,” says Stacey Abrams.
I…
6 years, 8 months ago