As we fasten our seatbelts and plunge into the 2024 campaign, here are two conversations worth a re-listen. From 2007, I talk with DREW WESTEN about the ideas and advice in his influential book, THE POLITICAL BRAIN: The Role of Emotion in Deciding the Fate of the Nation. Westen: Democrats almost always present the best arguments but lose elections to Republicans who have mastered the art of emotion and story-telling. In the second half, my 2009 conversation with BERNIE HORN of the Leadership Training Institute about FRAMING THE FUTURE: How Progressive Values Can Win Elections and Influence People. Horn: Persuadable voters make choices depending on how political issues and questions are framed. Emotion, framing, narratives. Trump traffics in all three.
MOVEMENT VOTER PROJECT-Funding the grassroots wins elections + makes change-ELIZABETH FERNANDEZ
ERICA CHENOWETH-Protest - What Really Works Best - Violence or Non-Violence?
GEORGE PACKER, We Are Living in a Failed State
ASTRA TAYLOR, What is Democracy? Is it alive and well?
Inspiring ideas for troubling times-1) Fritjof Capra on Systems Thinking, 2) Stuart Kauffman, Reinventing the Sacred
CHARLOTTE ALTER - THE ONES WE’VE BEEN WAITING FOR - Millennials in office. Will a new generation change America?
What stories got us here? Conversation w/ JEREMY LENT, THE PATTERNING INSTINCT (2018)
ROBERT WRIGHT-Why are Americans divided as they confront a pandemic?
ROBERT WRIGHT-Evolution of God-How God’s personality changed with ancient politics
MARY O’HARA-The Shame Game-The narrative that tells people poverty is their own fault
ROBERT REICH-Once the pandemic is over and Trump is defeated, the system will still be broken.Who rigged it and how do we fix it?
BRANKO MILANOVIC-Capitalism Rules the World-How do we shrink inequality?
Podcast - DON INGBER-Learning from Nature -> Biotech Breakthroughs at Harvard’s Wyss Institute
Robert Greenwald - SUPPRESSED: The Fight to Vote - new documentary
DAVID FARIS High Time for the Dems to Fight Dirty (2018)
Nick Kristof & Sheryl WuDunn-TIGHTROPE-Americans in Despair Reaching for Hope
STEPHAN SCHWARTZ-8 LAWS OF CHANGE: How to Be an Agent of Personal and Social Transformation
AARON GLANTZ- HOMEWRECKERS: How Wall Street Suckered Millions Out of Their Homes and Put the American Dream Out of Reach
Take a break-1) Roco Belic, Happy doc 2) Rafe Esquith, 5th Grade Shakespearians
ANDREW BACEVICH-How US Squandered Its Cold War Victory - Paving the Way for Trump
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