Is Democracy More Resilient Than We Think?

The Good Fight

Yascha Mounk

News

4.6 • 907 Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2023

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

John Carey is Professor of Government at Dartmouth College and is a co-founder of Bright Line Watch, a research group which monitors threats to American democracy. In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and John Carey discuss whether recent publications casting doubt on the extent of democratic erosion have any merit; why many Americans believe the charges against former President Trump to be politically motivated; and why, no matter the outcome, indicting a former president may trigger a cycle of retaliatory prosecutions. This transcript has been condensed and lightly edited for clarity. Please do listen and spread the word about The Good Fight. If you have not yet signed up for our podcast, please do so now by following this link on your phone. Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.persuasion.community Podcast production by John Taylor Williams, and Brendan Ruberry Connect with us! Spotify | Apple | Google Twitter: @Yascha_Mounk & @joinpersuasion Youtube: Yascha Mounk LinkedIn: Persuasion Community Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The Economist provides independent journalism for independent thinking and has been
0:05.1	championing progress for almost 200 years.
0:08.3	With the Economist, you gain access to fact-based, deeply researched expert analysis of world events and topics
0:14.3	ranging from business and culture to politics, science and technology.
0:18.2	Tune into the global conversation with reporting from correspondence around the world,
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0:26.5	So for fact sake, search the economist. You're going to. And now the good fight with Yasha Monk.
0:47.0	Hi my name is William Derosowitz. I have a recent piece in persuasion called
0:59.1	How to Overall Higher Education. We're talking about affirmative action a lot now. This piece is
1:05.6	distinguished by completely ignoring affirmative action because that only
1:10.0	applies to a few schools and the vast majority of schools do not educate the elite.
1:15.3	So what do we need to do for everybody else?
1:17.6	We need to make college free again, just like we used to.
1:22.2	We need to make it possible for people who aren't wealthy or near wealthy
1:26.5	to go to college without taking on debt. We need to stop with the adjuncts. We need to go back to actual professors who have job
1:35.3	security, but we also need to teach all professors actually how to teach, which
1:40.4	believe it or not we don't do in higher education.
1:43.0	That's going to cost some money.
1:45.0	I propose that we pay for it not only with tax increases,
1:48.0	which we need for lots of reasons anyway,
1:50.0	but also by cutting all the ridiculous costs that have accumulated in higher education.
1:55.0	Like administrators, cut half of the administrators, pay the ones who are left a lot less.
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