#274 — The Future of American Democracy

Making Sense with Sam Harris

Waking Up with Sam Harris

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🗓️ 11 February 2022

⏱️ 140 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of the podcast, Sam Harris speaks with Anne Applebaum, David Frum, Barton Gellman, and George Packer about the ongoing threat to American democracy posed by Republican misinformation and disinformation regarding the 2020 Presidential Election and the attack on the Capitol on January 6th, 2021.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Making Sense podcast.
0:24.3	This is Sam Harris.
0:26.3	Okay, well in today's episode we are presenting audio from a live event we did on Zoom a couple
0:33.0	of weeks back, which was free for podcast subscribers, and over 9,000 of you joined us live
0:41.0	in the middle of the day, and most of you stayed for the full two hours, which was really
0:46.6	great.
0:47.6	Anyway, upon re-listing to this, the conversation was even better than I had realized, and
0:54.9	I'm very happy to get a chance to present it to a wider audience here.
1:00.3	The event was inspired by a recent issue of the Atlantic magazine, which had several
1:05.2	articles focusing on the ongoing threat to American democracy posed by the widely believed
1:11.6	why that the 2020 election was stolen.
1:18.2	Around like 60% of Republicans believe this, and needless to say that has consequences.
1:26.4	So to walk us through this grim situation, I enlisted the help of four Atlantic writers,
1:33.6	Ann Applebaum, David from George Packer, and Barton Gellman.
1:40.3	Ann Applebaum has been on the podcast before.
1:43.0	She is a journalist and prize-winning historian, a staff writer at the Atlantic, a senior fellow
1:50.4	at the SNF Gora Institute at Johns Hopkins, where she co-leads a project on 21st century
1:56.2	disinformation, and co-teaches a course on democracy.
2:00.8	Her books include Red Famine, Stalin's War on Ukraine, Iron Curtain, The Crushing of
2:06.8	Eastern Europe, 1944 and 1956, and Gulag, a history, which won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for
2:15.8	Nonfiction.
2:18.0	Her most recent book is The New York Times Best Seller, Twilight of Democracy, which is
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