Alexandra Hudson on Why Civility Matters

The Good Fight

Yascha Mounk

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4.6 • 907 Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Yascha Mounk and Alexandra Hudson discuss how civility can be a tool for pursuing justice. Alexandra Hudson is a writer, an adjunct professor at the Indiana University Lilly School of Philanthropy, and the founder of the publication Civic Renaissance. Hudson’s first book is The Soul of Civility: Timeless Principles to Heal Society and Ourselves. In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Alexandra Hudson discuss how civility is different from mere politeness; why true civility can require engaging in uncomfortable conversations and delivering hard truths; and why certain social norms and expectations have proven timeless. This transcript has been condensed and lightly edited for clarity. Please do listen and spread the word about The Good Fight. If you have not yet signed up for our podcast, please do so now by following this link on your phone. Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.persuasion.community Podcast production by Jack Shields, and Brendan Ruberry Connect with us! Spotify | Apple | Google Twitter: @Yascha_Mounk & @joinpersuasion Youtube: Yascha Mounk LinkedIn: Persuasion Community Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The principles of civility are the principles that modulate temper our self-love and the worst
0:06.3	excesses of our selfishness and help us consider the needs of others alongside of ourselves.
0:12.6	They're remarkably timeless.
0:14.0	People have independently come to similar assessments
0:16.9	about what works when it comes to human flourishing and genuine human
0:20.2	relationship and cooperation and collaboration, and what doesn't. and book given to us from ancient Egypt 2,350 BC and a lot of these maximums from Tahoe tap could
0:35.4	appear and a Judith Martin, Miss Manders column today in the Washington Post.
0:40.2	They're just remarkably timeless conventional wisdom of how to do life together.
0:44.0	And now the good fight with Yasha Monk.
0:47.0	My name is Sam Khan. I'm an associate editor of Persuasion. I just published a piece in persuasion called a mid-August fever dream.
0:59.0	It's a new genre for me and really for persuasion, political fiction.
1:03.0	I wanted to explore in depth what everybody has been talking about, what would happen if Biden dropped out.
1:08.0	It seemed for a while that this was the really important question of the 2024 election but I hadn't seen a lot on
1:14.0	the mechanics of what that might look like and when I was working on the piece I
1:17.5	understood why it was startlingly hard to get a clear picture of it the rules
1:21.6	for a brokered convention in nominating process are really
1:24.0	obscure. But the point was that it was possible. Biden could step down. An exciting Democratic
1:29.6	candidate could emerge and win. At this point, I don think it'll happen but it's fun to have a
1:34.0	forum like this to explore the possibility. I hope you read the piece. Thanks.
1:38.3	Sam Collins article a mid-August fever dream was published byasion. To learn more about the community
1:43.2	we're building at persuasion and to get similar articles directly into your
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