Today we hear from Dr. Arthur C. Brooks, Professor of the Practice of Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School and Professor of Management Practice at the Harvard Business School. He’s also the former president of the American Enterprise Institute, a leading public policy think tank. You may be familiar with Brooks from his work as a writer — he’s the author of eleven books, including the national bestsellers Love Your Enemies and The Conservative Heart, a columnist for The Atlantic, host of the podcast “The Art of Happiness with Arthur Brooks,” and the subject of a 2019 documentary “The Pursuit.”

In this fascinating interview, Brooks discusses democratic capitalism, why the bottom 30% — those historically shut out of economic opportunity in the United States — are our country’s greatest untapped assets, and the gift of a pen from the Dalai Lama.

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Mentioned in this episode:

• Love Your Enemies 
• The Conservative Heart
• The Art of Happiness with Arthur Brooks
• The Pursuit
• Arthur C. Brooks in The Atlantic
• Johann Sebastion Bach
• John Keats, “Ode to a Grecian Urn”
• The War on Poverty
• Pablo Picasso
• Dalai Lama
• St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica
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