Ep. 578 — Frank Bruni

The Axe Files with David Axelrod

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4.6 • 7.7K Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2024

⏱️ 61 minutes

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“Measuring misfortune is no strategy for living,” writes journalist Frank Bruni in his new book, “The Age of Grievance.” Yet, he says, we live in a culture obsessed with feeling victimized, searching for every micro-aggression, and leaning in to personal grievance as a sort of social currency. Frank joined David to talk about his book, the civic challenges posed by grievance, why Ron DeSantis is the most emblematic politician of our era, the need for political reform, protests on college campuses, and how to approach others with more grace and less judgement. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:38.7	audio, the Axxwiles. With your host, David Axelrod. The last time journalist author in Duke University
0:47.0	Professor Frank Bruni visited, we spoke about a wrenching trauma in his own life,
0:52.4	the loss of sight. He returns to talk about
0:55.5	our country's current self-inflicted trauma, the topic of his latest book called
1:00.4	The Age of Grievance. We spoke about the shredding of the American community in this era of social media, political polarization, and rapid change, and how we begin to repair it.
1:11.0	Our conversation was recorded before a live audience at the Institute of
1:15.1	Politics and here it is.
1:16.7	Frank Bruni, good to see you my friend. It's been a while.
1:23.4	The last time we got together on one of these podcasts, you had been through trauma in your life and you wrote about it.
1:34.0	You'd lost your sight in one eye and through very rare eye stroke and you and the other I was in jeopardy. I only raised this not to
1:50.0	revisit old territory but first of all I ask, how are you doing?
1:54.1	You quit your job at the times or at least as a full-time columnist you're still writing and you
1:58.4	went down to Duke to teach.
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