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The Good Fight

Justin E. H. Smith

The Good Fight

Yascha Mounk

News

4.7963 Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2018

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of The Good Fight, Yascha Mounk talks to Justin E. H. Smith, Professor of the History and Philosophy of Science at the Sorbonne, and one of our time’s most thoughtful and wide-ranging essayists, about the assault on rationality in our politics and how (not to) respond. Email: thegoodfight@newamerica.org Twitter:@Yascha_Mounk This podcast was made in collaboration with New America. Podcast production by John T. Williams. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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NARS Cosmetics.co. UK. Certainly over the past 10 years there has been a challenge to the presumed rationality of a system that was something analogous to what Thomas Kuhn would call in the history of science, normal science.

0:50.0

And now the good fight with Yasha Monk.

0:54.0

Welcome to the podcast that searches for the ideas, policies and strategies that can be to for

0:59.0

Italian populists like Donald Trump over the next four years and the next 40.

1:04.6

I usually try to say something new and original in my little

1:10.0

interest deal.

1:11.6

I want to help think through what's going on in the world and help orient you about how I see the world.

1:16.7

Today I'm not going to do that. I'm going to say something which I'm sure you've all thought and all agreed with.

1:21.7

That is important nonetheless. And that's just the deep way in which

1:28.2

social media encourages some of our worst instincts. And I think sometimes you see that when people actually have justified

1:35.7

anger, when you can understand why they are denouncing something, why they are calling out something.

1:42.0

But even then the nature of that sentiment

1:44.7

doesn't seem to be in keeping with the goals it purports to serve.

1:50.7

When people make mistakes, genuine mistakes, bad judgment calls for example,

1:55.0

or when they simply disagree with their tribe,

1:59.0

when people on the right criticize Donald Trump,

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