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Mike talks with Paul Starr, a professor of sociology and public affairs at Princeton University and the author of multiple books, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Social Transformation of American Medicine. His latest book is American Contradiction: Revolution and Revenge from the 1950s to Now, which they discuss in this episode
Topics Mike & Paul cover include:
- Trumpism as ‘total revenge’
- why American politics is a ‘tie game Democrats have been losing’
- America as a new people in an old nation
- the illusion of past consensus
- the rise of conservative counter-institutions
- the Democrats ‘demographics is destiny’ myth
- immigration, identity, and the limits of tolerance
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