History Lessons About Combatting Polarization in 2024 with Fareed Zakaria

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🗓️ 12 July 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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From AI to the political climate during an election year, our modern world is constantly changing and facing more polarization than before. How can we combat it and adapt to a changing America? CNN host and bestselling author Fareed Zakaria says you have to be open-minded and embrace compromise. In this conversation with John Donvan, Zakaria discusses our current revolutionary times, how past revolutions can help us understand our present, and why despite everything, he’s still hopeful. Our Guest: Fareed Zakaria, Host of CNN's Fareed Zakaria GPS; Author of "Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present" Emmy award-winning journalist John Donvan moderates Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is open to debate.
0:03.4	I'm John Don Van.
0:04.3	Hi everybody.
0:05.2	You've heard me say many times that open to debate
0:08.0	takes the view that good argument can actually
0:11.0	reduce polarization. And that may sound like a paradox but we argue
0:15.4	that it is not because we are emphasizing good argument by which we mean
0:19.2	argument that's based on facts and reasoning clear clear reasoning, logic, even an ability to listen to one another
0:25.6	with maybe the possibility of finding some common ground. Delivering exactly that is our
0:30.9	mission and so is trying to understand better the sources of
0:34.8	polarization which we all know is more extreme in the US today than in most of our
0:39.4	history why is that and for that matter what does history itself reveal about those times when societies have been upended and torn apart by political discord?
0:50.0	In this episode I'm talking to Farid Zakaria on this very question.
0:53.8	Farid is a well-known journalist who writes a week
0:56.2	so we could call him for the Washington Post.
0:57.8	He's currently the host of Farid Zakaria GPS on CNN.
1:01.3	And in addition to all of this, he's also a best-selling author many times
1:05.4	over and his latest book looks precisely at these moments of upheaval and change
1:10.0	that I'm talking about it is called the age of revolutions progress and backlash from
1:15.0	1600 to the present but I promise we'll spend most of our time in the present.
1:19.7	Fris Zakaria, thanks so much for joining me on Open to Debate.
1:22.1	Pleasure to be with you, John.
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