A Danger to Ourselves (with Tom Nichols)

Stay Tuned with Preet

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Politics, Government, Society & Culture, News

4.8 • 32.4K Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2021

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Preet answers listener questions about why Steve Bannon wasn’t immediately arrested after being indicted, whether the judge in the Kyle Rittenhouse trial acted inappropriately, and the likelihood of a civil war in the United States. Then, Preet interviews Tom Nichols, a professor of international affairs at the U.S. Naval War College and the author of a new book, Our Own Worst Enemy, which raises a new theory about the rise of anti-democratic movements: that our own narcissism is at fault. For show notes and a transcript of the episode, head to: https://cafe.com/stay-tuned/a-danger-to-ourselves-with-tom-nichols/ Don’t miss the Insider Bonus, where Preet asks Nichols a series of lightning round questions. As always, tweet your questions to @PreetBharara with hashtag #askpreet, email us at staytuned@cafe.com, or call 669-247-7338 to leave a voicemail. Stay Tuned with Preet is produced by CAFE and the Vox Media Podcast Network. Executive Producer: Tamara Sepper; Senior Editorial Producer: Adam Waller; Technical Director: David Tatasciore; Audio Producer: Matthew Billy; Editorial Producers: Noa Azulai, Sam Ozer-Staton. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	From Cafe and the Vox Media Podcast Network, welcome to Stay Tuned.
0:06.0	I'm Pete Barara.
0:08.0	The one thing that the government can't do, and this is where I part with my liberal friends,
0:13.0	it cannot provide your life a sense of meaning, and I think too much of what happens
0:17.0	in a democracy that is successful like ours, is that we lose a sense of meaning.
0:23.0	That's Tom Nichols.
0:28.0	He is a writer at the Atlantic, and the author of the book, Our Own Worst Enemy,
0:33.0	the assault from within on modern democracy.
0:36.0	He's also a professor in the Department of National Security Affairs at the U.S. Naval War College
0:41.0	and has a special interest in expertise in Soviet and Russian affairs.
0:45.0	You may remember that some months ago, Tom tweeted some,
0:48.0	spicy thoughts about Indian food, which resulted in the two of us live tweeting a meal together
0:53.0	and raising money for COVID relief in India.
0:56.0	We'll get to that.
0:58.0	Tom is worried about the collapse of our democratic systems,
1:00.0	and he says there's plenty of blame to go around.
1:03.0	He joins me this week to talk about the urgency of saving our democracy,
1:07.0	what happened, whose it fought, and where we go from here.
1:11.0	That's coming up. Stay tuned.
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