133 - Uncivil Agreement
In this episode, we welcome Lilliana Mason on the program to discuss her new book, Uncivil Agreement, which focuses on the idea: “Our conflicts are over who we think we are, rather than reasoned differences of opinion.”Personally, I feel like this is just about the most important thing the social s…
Are Americans Becoming Tribal, with Identity Politics Trumping All?
Democrats and Republicans are sorting ideologically and socially and we’re developing more negative opinions of one another. Are we dividing into two irreconcilable tribes—or just tuning out both parties? Liliana Mason talks about new research showing our partisan identity is stronger when our ethn…
David French on “The Great White Culture War"
David French is a senior writer for National Review and one of the conservatives I read most closely. About a month ago, he published an interesting column responding to some things I had said, and to the broader currents cutting through our politics. “Conservative white Americans look at urban mul…
EP 06 - What We Talk About When We Talk About Politics
Visit our website BeautifulIllusions.org for a complete set of show notes and links to almost everything discussed in this episode
Selected References:
5:53 - See “This is why you get worked up about politics, according to science” (CNN, 2017)
7:58 - Difficult Conversations by by Douglas Stone, Br…
What Will It Take to Bridge Our Differences?
We were supposed to meet face to face to talk about how Americans could bridge their differences.
But we couldn’t. COVID-19 prevented us from physically coming together. And so the staff of the Greater Good Science Center (GGSC) scrambled to turn “Bridging Differences: A Virtual Summit for Dialogu…
What Will It Take to Bridge Our Differences?
We were supposed to meet face to face to talk about how Americans could bridge their differences.
But we couldn’t. COVID-19 prevented us from physically coming together. And so the staff of the Greater Good Science Center (GGSC) scrambled to turn “Bridging Differences: A Virtual Summit for Dialogu…
The Megacrisis - how the world's problems piled up - a conversation with Helen Thompson
This week, Rafael Behr and Professor Helen Thompson discuss her new book Disorder: Hard Times in the 21st Century.
The book, which was released on the day Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, recounts three histories—one about geopolitics, one about the world economy, and one about western demo…
23. “Polarization” Is Not the Problem. It Obscures the Problem – with Shannon McGregor
We need to be a lot more critical towards the pervasive polarization narrative, towards “polarization” as the central diagnosis of our time. “Polarization” obscures not only what the key challenge is – the anti-democratic radicalization of the Right – but also transports a misleading idea of Americ…
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What If We Abolished Political Parties? A Radical Solution to Democratic Decay
What if the biggest threat to democracy isn't extremism, foreign interference, or misinformation — but the two-party system itself?
In this eye-opening conversation, entrepreneur and author Metin Pekin argues that political parties have become gatekeepers that filter our choices, serve elite intere…
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