Can Democracy Survive Identity Politics? With Yascha Mounk
TRIGGERnometry
Konstantin Kisin & Francis Foster
4.5 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 7 July 2022
⏱️ 69 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hi Anna. Hi Anna. Hi Anna. Do you have a dilemma that makes you feel totally alone? |
| 0:05.2 | Well, the good news is it's not just you. I'm earning more money than him now and I don't think he likes it. |
| 0:11.4 | We've been sleeping together for the past few weeks, but she has a boyfriend. |
| 0:14.9 | I am a virgin, I am 25. And I'm just not sure if it's normal. |
| 0:19.6 | I'm Anna Richardson and this is it can't just be me when no topic is off limits. |
| 0:24.9 | Find it wherever you're listening to this or on it can't just be me.co.uk. |
| 0:30.2 | What becomes dangerous is if you know the person who I give politically also has the same ethnicity as me, |
| 0:37.0 | also goes to the same church as me, also as part of the same little league team as me, |
| 0:41.4 | and the outside of a person who I distrust is just a stranger in all realms of life. |
| 0:47.4 | Because then it becomes easy to actually build a five intersection extent that that is capable of doing terrible things to do. |
| 1:00.6 | Hello and welcome to Trigonometry. I'm Francis Foster. |
| 1:04.7 | I'm Constantin Kishan and this is a show for you if you want honest conversations with fascinating people. |
| 1:11.7 | Our brilliant guest today is a political scientist whose latest book is called The Great Experiment. |
| 1:16.7 | Wide diverse democracies fall apart and how they can endure a Yasha monk. Welcome to Trigonometry. |
| 1:22.2 | Thanks so much for having me on. |
| 1:24.2 | It's a real pleasure to have you on. You and I have been messaging back and forth for years now, |
| 1:29.3 | trying to get you on the show. Please, we can do this now with your book coming out, |
| 1:33.7 | which Francis and I both really enjoyed. Before we talk about it and the case you make in the book, |
| 1:39.1 | tell everybody a little bit about who are you? How are you where you are? |
| 1:42.9 | What has been your journey through life that leads you to be sitting here talking to us? |
| 1:47.1 | Great. Yeah, I think we have probably we haven't talked about this as somewhat similar background. |
| 1:51.4 | My grandparents originally are from the Bourne and Levyf in Colomere in what's now the western part of Ukraine. |
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