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The Good Fight
Yascha Mounk
4.7 • 963 Ratings
🗓️ 21 June 2017
⏱️ 49 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Born with 300 bones, 10,000 taste buds, and the ability to make you smile in an instant. |
| 0:08.0 | Babies development fascinates us. |
| 0:11.0 | That's why SMA nutrition has been pioneering baby nutrition research |
| 0:15.6 | for over 100 years. We believe that breast milk is best for babies and breastfeeding |
| 0:21.3 | should continue for as long as possible. |
| 0:23.8 | We also understand everyone's journey is different. |
| 0:27.0 | SMA follow-on-on- Milk is the babies over six months as part of a varied weaning diet, not intended to replace breastfeeding. |
| 0:34.4 | SMA Nutrition, pioneering baby nutrition since 1919. corporate America is making money hand over fist in an economy that isn't working for most people. |
| 0:56.0 | That's what populism is picking up on. |
| 1:01.0 | And now the good fight with Yasha Monk. |
| 1:06.0 | Welcome to the podcast that searches for the ideas, policies and strategies that can be to |
| 1:11.5 | for a time of populist like Donald Trump. Over the next four years... and in his inaugural speech on a cold freezing winter night in DC in January of |
| 1:26.6 | 1961 when he asked his citizens that they should ask not what the country can do for you, but ask what you can do for your country. |
| 1:35.4 | But that's what he meant. |
| 1:38.6 | In the post-war era, politicians had this really expansive notion of responsibility. they thought that it involved duties that each |
| 1:44.6 | of us has to our family, to our neighbors, to our community, to our state, even to our country. |
| 1:50.9 | Now in my PhD dissertation, which was just published as a book called The Age of Responsibility, |
| 1:58.2 | like Choice in the Welfare State a couple months ago, I showed you what degree our understanding of responsibility has narrowed since then |
| 2:05.9 | but when we talk about responsibility especially in the context of politics what we |
| 2:10.4 | now mean is basically you got to earn enough of a living so you're not a nuisance to other people. |
| 2:16.0 | All that responsibility means is a narrow concept of personal responsibility. |
| 2:21.0 | And in keeping with that we've reshaped the welfare state to say look if you've made a mistake |
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