Air Date 12/6/2022
Today, we take a look at some of the factors driving hyper-partisanship in the US right now along with multiple arguments to not give up on the power of persuasion.
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SHOW NOTES
Ch. 1: What If We Don't Need To 'Fix' Polarization? - The NPR Politics Podcast - Air Date 3-20-21
NPR's Danielle Kurtzleben interviews Lilliana Mason, associate professor of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland, about her book Uncivil Agreement.
Ch. 2: Getting Past Polarization: Anand Giridharadas - Ideas - Air Date 11-23-22
The extremes are extreme in U.S. politics. But Anand Giridharadas and some other progressives are convinced that there are uncompromising approaches that can move up to 60 percent of voters to value democracy and human rights.
Ch. 3: How to fix our polarized conversations (with Robb Willer) - How to Be a Better Human - Air Date 2-1-21
Is your family, community, or even your country more divided than ever? Today’s guest Robb Willer is here to share some compelling insights on how we might bridge the ideological divide and offer some intuitive advice on ways to be more persuasive.
Ch. 4: Can persuasion bridge the political divide? - Front Burner - Air Date 11-25-22
In his book, Giridharadas speaks with experts on reaching people — organizers, activists, politicians, cognitive scientists, and even a cult deprogrammer — and takes a critical look at his fellow American progressives.
Ch. 5: Why We're So Polarized - The Truth of the Matter - Air Date 10-25-21
Johns Hopkins University professor Dr. Lillianna Mason joins the podcast for a discussion of political polarization in the U.S. and how politics have become central to the identities of many Americans across racial, religious and cultural lines.
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Ch. 6: An innovative polling model can move us past political polarization - The Future of Everything - Air Date 6-24-22
A Stanford professor explains how the deliberative polling model can get people to listen to one another and even compromise on some of society’s most complex policy issues.
FINAL COMMENTS
Ch. 7: Final comments on hyper-partisanship in the ballot box
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#1549 Fox News is worse than we imagined or: they all knew they were lying
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#1548 The War on Woke Pits the GOP Against Their Usual Allies in Big Business
#1547 Shaping the Future of the Internet
#1546 Exist, Resist, Indigenize, Decolonize: A story of colonialism, cultural renaissance and modernity
#1466 The Faustian Bargain of Technological Advancement and Societal Degradation (Repost)
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#1545 Agents of Chaos: The New Congress
#1544 Block History Month: The Campaign to Erase Uncomfortable Truths About Black History
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#1542 Despair and violence in Israel's illiberal and exclusionary "democracy"
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#1541 Tear down paradise and put up a dystopian police state (Cop City)
#1540 The Grift of Life (Scam Culture™ and the Economy it has built)
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#1539 Stolen Children is Stolen History, Heritage, and Culture (Indian Child Welfare Act)
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