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Federalist Radio Hour

How To Patch Up America's Social Fabric

Federalist Radio Hour

Radio America

News Commentary, News, Politics

4.53.2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of "The Federalist Radio Hour," Chris Bullivant, director of the Social Capital Campaign, joins Federalist Culture Editor Emily Jashinsky to discuss the relationship between declining social capital, society-wide trust, and ideological diversity. Bullivant also explains the policy solutions that he believes can help reverse the effects of that eroding trust.

You can find Bullivant's report "A Civil Society - Celebrating Diversity of Opinion" here: https://www.socialcapitalcampaign.com/civil-society

Transcript

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0:00.0

We're back with another edition of the Federalist Radio Hour.

0:20.0

I'm Emily Gisinski, Culture Editor here at the Federalist As Always.

0:23.2

You can email the show at radioatthefederalist.com, follow us on Twitter at FDR LST.

0:29.1

Make sure to subscribe wherever you download your podcasts as well.

0:33.2

Today I'm excited to be joined by Chris Bollivan.

0:35.5

He's the director of the Social Capital Campaign.

0:38.8

And they are out with a really interesting new report.

0:42.0

It is called A Civil Society Celebrating Diversity of Opinion.

0:46.5

And it comes to all kinds of different observations based on that.

0:50.9

Chris, welcome back to the show.

0:52.8

Great, Emily. It's great, great to be back here.

0:55.2

Thank you for having me back.

0:56.8

Oh, of course. We'll talk about Social Capital any day.

0:59.3

That's the kind of nerds we are here at Federalist Radio Hour.

1:02.4

But Chris, actually, Social Capital is like this fancy social science word for

1:07.7

something super pragmatic that people feel every single day in their lives.

1:12.7

From the moment they wake up to the moment they go to bed.

1:16.6

And tell us, obviously, Social Capital Campaign does all kinds of work on Social Capital.

1:21.5

But tell us specifically with this report what you're trying to do.

1:25.0

I understand it's one of several reports that you're rolling out right now.

1:30.8

Yeah, that's right. So Social Capital is the rich network of relationships that we experience

1:38.7

in our lives. So those are involved in our childhood. So parents and family and extended family

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