How to Stop A Civil War

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🗓️ 14 November 2019

⏱️ 41 minutes

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The special December issue of The Atlantic focuses on a single theme: “How to Stop a Civil War.” Two contributors to the issue, Harvard professor Danielle Allen and staff writer Adam Serwer, join Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg to discuss their arguments in the magazine. Allen’s piece, “The Road From Serfdom,” asserts that unity must be made a priority again and offers prescriptive steps for how it can be achieved. In “Against Reconciliation,” Serwer argues that the nation’s pursuits of compromise have often led it to abandon its promises of freedom and equality for all its citizens—that Americans have been content to sacrifice civil rights for civil discourse. The three sat down to discuss where they agree, where they disagree, and how optimistic they are that world’s oldest democracy can survive its bitter divisions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:00.0	And we published a special issue around a single theme,
1:03.0	How to Stop a Civil War.
1:05.0	With me in the studio is the person behind that issue,
1:08.0	the Atlantic's editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg.
1:10.0	Hi Jeff.
1:11.0	Hi, Jeff.
1:12.0	Hi, Isaac. So, Civil War.
1:15.0	Yes.
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