#185 Pragmatic History w/ Bill Scher

The Road to Now

Benjamin Sawyer

Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 629 Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2020

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Journalist Bill Scher joins Ben for a conversation about political pragmatism and the accomplishments that come from compromise and playing the long game when it comes to institutional change. Bill also talks about how his life as a journalist led him to create his new podcast, When America Worked, which focuses on the people whose achievements were accomplished through pragmatism. Episode 1 "He Saved the World: Edward R. Stettinius, Jr." is out now and available anywhere you get The Road to Now and at www.Scherable.com. You can follow Bill Scher on twitter at @BillScher.

This episode was edited by Gary Fletcher.

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0:51.1	I'm Ben Sawyer and this is The Road to Now.
0:55.3	Today's episode is a conversation with Bill Cher.
0:58.5	He's a journalist who writes for Real Clear Politics and also for Politico.
1:02.3	We had a great conversation about his new podcast, When America Worked.
1:06.8	His goal in that podcast is to uncover the people whose achievements and accomplishments were
1:12.1	unrecognized, largely because they were accomplished through the means of pragmatism.
1:17.3	And so he's trying to really, in an era where we're so focused on making heroes out of people,
1:21.9	to really bring forward the people who made things happen, not by throwing down the gauntlet,
1:27.3	not by ideology, but by the people
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