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Welcome to another episode of Conversations with Coleman. My guest today is Yasha Monk.

Yasha is a political scientist and associate professor at Johns Hopkins University.

He's also the founder of Persuasion, which is a great online magazine I really recommend you all read.

And he's the host of the Good Fight podcast.

Yasha has a new book out called The Great Experiment, which is what we're talking about today.

We discuss group psychology and tribalism and their origin in human nature. We talk about the difference between

nations that are built around specific ethnic groups on the one hand and nations that are built

around abstract ideas on the other. We discuss the challenges faced by multi-ethnic democracies. We discuss the

threats to diverse democracies from the right and from the left. We talk about why diverse

democracies can be less stable than diverse autocracies. We talk about colorblindness, white identity

politics, and wokeness. We talk about whether increased contact between racial groups is the antidote to racism.

We discuss whether diversity is an inherent good or a contingent good.

We talk about the idea that demography is destiny.

We talk about the fluidity of racial identity and how one's identity can change in response to social incentives.

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