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The Good Fight

Colin Woodard on America’s Many Nations

The Good Fight

Yascha Mounk

News

4.6907 Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2023

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

Colin Woodard is an American journalist. He is the author of American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America. In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Colin Woodard discuss the ideals of America’s settlers and why they remain influential many years later; how the tension between individual freedom and concern for the public good has shaped America’s regional divides; and whether a shared national narrative can help to unify our divided groups. This transcript has been condensed and lightly edited for clarity. Please do listen and spread the word about The Good Fight. If you have not yet signed up for our podcast, please do so now by following this link on your phone. Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.persuasion.community Podcast production by John Taylor Williams, and Brendan Ruberry Connect with us! Spotify | Apple | Google Twitter: @Yascha_Mounk & @joinpersuasion Youtube: Yascha Mounk LinkedIn: Persuasion Community Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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I'm Richard Reeves and I am the biography of John Stuart Mill and president of the

0:58.4

American Institute for Boys and Men I have a peace in persuasion titled

1:02.4

J.S. Mill

1:03.2

milled died 150 years ago this year and on his deathbed said to his

1:09.4

stepdaughter you know that I've done my work and And Mills work wasn't just the work of an intellectual,

1:16.0

although he's most famous for that work, of course including his essay on liberty,

1:20.0

but also for contesting for, for fighting in Parliament in Hyde Park in many of his debates.

1:26.0

Mill as a 19th century liberal was used to a world where the arguments for liberalism were far from self-evident and had to be argued and fought for.

1:34.9

And to that extent he's again a man of his time because we're in a world now where the arguments

1:41.9

that Mill made for example for free speech and the arguments

1:44.8

for the ways in which traditions and customs could be actually tyrannical if we weren't careful

1:50.1

that are being fought over again. So his famous argument for free speech and on liberty was

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