Graeme Wood on January 6th, Saudi Arabia, and Interviewing Extremists
The Good Fight
Yascha Mounk
4.7 • 963 Ratings
🗓️ 2 July 2022
⏱️ 53 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | We're an a nation mad about pets. |
| 0:02.5 | We bake birthday cakes for cats, |
| 0:04.5 | let dogs share our beds, |
| 0:06.2 | and even get tattoos of ferrets. |
| 0:08.2 | Yes, ferrets. |
| 0:09.8 | Now that's love. |
| 0:11.6 | You do anything and everything for your pets and at pets at home, so do we. |
| 0:16.5 | Whether it's expert advice, veterinary care or grooming, more people trust us with their pets than anyone else. We're all for pets. |
| 0:26.5 | To verify visit pets at home.com forward slash all for pets. |
| 0:31.2 | Trump could have issued all sorts of orders that would have made this an unambiguous poop, |
| 0:36.0 | and he just didn't do these things because as he has been for as long as he's been a political figure, |
| 0:42.0 | he's been characterized by this lethargy, this inaction, |
| 0:46.2 | this aversion to exertion and personal risk. |
| 0:49.7 | And in fact, that's what happened. |
| 0:50.7 | Luckily for the United States, because that's probably what kept |
| 0:54.3 | the attempted coup from being a possibly successful one. |
| 0:57.8 | And now the good fight with Yasha Monk. |
| 1:17.2 | The one thing you are always asked when you write a big non-fiction book about a big problem is what can we do and that question mostly seems to be about politics it mostly seems to imply what can Congress do what kind of laws and reforms can we pass |
| 1:22.3 | and I've noticed that in trying what kind of laws and reforms can we pass? |
| 1:23.2 | And I've noticed that in trying to answer that question, |
| 1:26.5 | many non-fiction books suffer from what I call the Chapter 10 problem. |
| 1:30.6 | They have described a deep problem in nine chapters. |
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