E59. Bret Stephens On Why Disagreement is the Basis of Every Free Society

Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget Phetasy

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🗓️ 5 December 2019

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Bret Stephens, op-ed columnist for The New York Times, sits down with Bridget to discuss Trump’s effect on the Republican Party, feeling out of place in your own country, the dangers of a culture that’s so sure of its convictions, mob politics, and how Trump’s behavior is both a symptom and a cause of a form of cultural corrosion. Bret talks growing up in Mexico and the perspective it gave him on the US that most Americans don’t have, and why what we have in the US is relatively rare, difficult to achieve, and extraordinarily easy to lose. He and Bridget cover tolerating behavior you find morally offensive because you realize that the price of intolerance is worse than whatever offense is being perpetrated, the unforgiving nature of writing a weekly column, maintaining the understanding you don’t possess a lock on truth, how antisemitism is like a society’s immune system, the emerging attitude of a hatred of excellence, and his experience of being in Jerusalem on 9/11. Full transcript available here: WiW59-BretStephens-Transcript

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0:00.0	Thank you for listening to this Podcast One production.
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0:08.3	This is Walk-In's Welcome with Bridget Petacy.
0:10.9	I'm Bridget Petacy, I'm Bridget Petacy and you are welcome. You know the drill.
0:25.0	the drill.
0:27.0	Please subscribe, rate, comment, share, reach out, tell your friends, send smoke signals, whatever.
0:32.0	We love your feedback and we want to hear from you. your
0:33.0	feedback and we want to hear from you.
0:35.0	This week on Walkins Welcome, we are excited to have Brett Stevens on.
0:39.0	He's been an opinion columnist with the New York Times since April 2017.
0:44.2	He won a Pulitzer Prize for commentary at the Wall Street Journal in 2013
0:48.8	and was previously editor-in-chief of the Jerusalem Post. We have Brett Stevens in the studio. Hi.
0:57.0	Nice to be here. Thank you for taking the time. I'm honored to join your show.
1:02.0	I'm excited to hear your whole story. The whole life story
1:05.1	that's what we do here. The whole brief an interesting life story. I doubt it.
1:09.1	Everybody says that but everybody has a story Brett. Well you're I guess you'll hear mine first tell everybody what you do
1:17.3	I'm currently an op-ed columnist for the New York Times. Okay, and I want to know how you got there now.
1:26.0	Did you always, was this your dream?
1:28.0	Is this your dream job?
1:30.0	I always wanted to be a newspaper columnist.
1:32.8	And for 11 years, I wrote an op-ed column
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