Chatter: Pluralism and Religion within Democratic Institutions with Jonathan Rauch

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🗓️ 5 October 2023

⏱️ 67 minutes

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This week on Chatter, Lawfare Editor-in-Chief Ben Wittes sat down with author and journalist Jonathan Rauch, of the Brookings Institution. In a wide-ranging conversation, they spoke about Jonathan's numerous books, his start in journalism, and his focus on liberalism, Madisonian Pluralism, and religion within democratic institutions.

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0:25.6	no bull, and the aftermath.
0:35.7	This week on chatter, Jonathan Roush of the Brookings Institution, author, public intellectual,
0:43.7	student of liberalism and democratic institutions, and all around interesting guy.
0:50.7	The reason for this work, well one reason is that I've always been curious about religion,
0:59.1	being an atheistic homosexual Jew. There is no shortage of people in the of
1:06.9	Latter-day Saints who would like the church to be more proactively hardcore on culture issues.
1:12.5	And by the way, there's also no shortage of people who are leaving the church because
1:16.8	they think it's too conservative, especially among the young.
1:21.9	I think there's a model in Utah for a conservative Christianity that is committed to Madisonian
1:30.6	style pluralism. It's not the first place you would expect to look, but there it is, and
1:35.0	we have both liberals and Christians, I think, have a ton to learn.
1:40.1	Mr. Jonathan Roush, I want to start with how we should think about the major unifying
1:54.1	themes of your career. You haven't know there were any.
1:59.3	Well, maybe the answer is there are not. You've written about happiness, you've written
2:05.3	about, I'm just thinking of books here, about speech and enforcement of
2:13.1	illiberal attitudes by both right and left. You've written about the history of
2:21.7	gay liberation movements. What are the things that bind the Roush
2:29.4	over together? Well, first of all, thank you for being, for having me join you today
2:38.3	in, I guess, the jungle studio. This is the deforested jungle studio. It used to be
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