Arthur Brooks on Love Your Enemies

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🗓️ 8 July 2019

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Economist and author Arthur Brooks talks about his book Love Your Enemies with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Brooks argues that contempt is destroying our political conversations and it's not good for us at the personal level either. Brooks makes the case for humility and tolerance. Along the way he discusses parenting, his past as professional musician, and the challenges of leading a think tank.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Econ Talk, part of the Library of Economics and Liberty.
0:08.0	I'm your host, Russ Roberts, of Stanford University's Hoover Institution.
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0:24.8	back to 2006.
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0:33.6	Today is May 21, 2019, and my guest is economist and author Arthur Brooks of Harvard University,
0:39.8	until recently he was the president of the American Enterprise Institute.
0:43.9	His latest book in the topic of today's episode is Love Your Enemies, How Decent People
0:48.5	Can Save America From the Culture of Contempt Arthur Welcome to Econ Talk.
0:53.8	Thank you, Russ.
0:54.8	Thank you.
0:55.8	Congratulations on such a great show.
0:56.8	Oh, thanks.
0:57.8	What do you mean by the culture of contempt?
1:01.0	It's great for his.
1:02.6	Well, when I started doing work on political polarization and political bitterness, I thought
1:08.1	the problem was anger because people certainly act like they're being angry with each other
1:11.5	a lot.
1:12.5	But I was clued in by somebody that admire a lot.
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