This is going to be a podcast you will want to listen to all the way to the end.

For 12 years, our guest was a professional French hornist.

Which I don't even know if that's what you call it.

He's a guy who played the French horn.

Is that a hornist? Because it sounds bad.

Anyway, he was with the Annapolis Brass Quintet then at City Orchestra of Barcelona.

Then he was a professor of French horn. After that, he worked as a professor at Syracuse University

where he taught economics and social entrepreneurship.

I guess the horn thing didn't work out. Currently, he is the president of the American Enterprise Institute.

But he is leaving that position this summer and he's going to begin teaching at the Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard Business School.

His latest book is Love Your Enemy, How Decent People Can Save America From The Culture Of Contempt.

It came out in early March. It's the best seller on the USA Today and New York Times list.

He's also a columnist for the Washington Post, host of the podcast, The Arthur Brook Show.

That's selling author of 11 books on topics including the role of government fairness, economic opportunity, happiness,

and the morality of free enterprise.

Don't miss a minute of this episode with Arthur Brooks.

What's happened to us? Who are we today?

We're the Americans we always were. But it's a hard time.

It's a hard time because after a financial crisis and all the stresses and strains,

the belief that people in Washington, people who are in charge have left us behind, we get a dignity gap.

There's a lot of despair when you travel around this country and that despair is metastasized into something really dangerous,

which is contempt. The belief that somebody who disagrees with you is utterly worthless.

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