06.10.2023 - By Zachary Elwood
A talk with political theorist Robert Talisse, author of Sustaining Democracy: What We Owe To The Other Side, which is one of the best book about American polarization that I've read. We talk about: the limits and realities of democracy and what it can achieve; separating expected and healthy polarization from unhealthy, toxic polarization; what we owe to our fellow citizens even when we see them as very misguided and even dangerous; how extreme polarization can make our relationships and coalitions even with politically similar people suffer and fall apart. The Khmer Rouge, Mr Clever and Me
In 1993, Chris Moon was captured by the Khmer Rouge. No westerner had ever survived.
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