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After Arley Hawkshield published her book, Strangers in their own land, anger and mourning

on the American right.

Just before the 2016 election, it came to feel prescient.

In the conversation I had with her in 2018, has now come to point straight at the heart

of 2020, a year in which most of us might say we feel like strangers in our own land and

in our own world.

Arley Hawkshield created the field of the sociology of emotion, the social impact of emotion,

and emotion is now out on the surface of our life together on every side.

She explains how our stories and truths, what we try to debate as issues, are felt, not

merely factual.

And why, as a matter of pragmatism, we have to take emotion seriously and do what feels

unnatural, get curious and caring about the other side.

It doesn't mean that you're capitulating.

See, that's the misunderstanding, I think, especially on the left.

Oh, if you listen to them, that means you've been taken over.

Not at all.

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