Amy Chua on 'Political Tribes'

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🗓️ 24 March 2018

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Jack Goldsmith talks to Yale Law School professor Amy Chua about her new book, "Political Tribes: Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations," at the Hoover Book Soiree.

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0:25.6	No Bull and the aftermath.
0:33.7	What I have said is that United States, one of the reasons we had so much stability with
0:38.2	democracy is we never had a market dominant minority.
0:41.6	Right again, a market dominant minority is a little outside or minority that dominated
0:45.5	the economy while being politically weak.
0:47.6	We didn't have that.
0:48.6	It was just whites controlled everything.
0:50.9	Now what's happened is I think we are starting to see the emergence of our own very peculiar
0:57.4	form of a market dominant minority and for lack of a better term, I'm identifying these
1:03.4	coastal elites.
1:05.1	In developing countries you see over and over, the rhetoric when you have a market dominant
1:09.1	minority is you always, really systematically, almost with very few exceptions, you will
1:15.0	find a populist demagogue or many coming in saying it's time to take back our
1:20.8	country.
1:21.8	I'm Matthew Khan and you're listening to the LawFair podcast March 24th, 2018.
1:29.3	Tribalism has become a touchstone for many political scientists and commentators seeking
1:33.2	to explain the rise of Donald Trump.
1:35.4	Yale Law School Professor Amy Chua argues in her new book, Political Tribes, Grouped Instinct
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