Monica Guzman on Curiosity and Conversation in Contentious Times

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🗓️ 12 December 2022

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

In our highly polarized times, everyone seems obsessed with the truth: what is it, who has it, and which side's got it all wrong. What we don't seem to care about, says journalist Monica Guzman, is the truth behind perspectives other than our own. Listen as Guzman and host Russ Roberts discuss Guzman's book I Never Thought of It That Way, a call to get interested in the people behind the positions, and the experiences, hopes, and fears that lead to their beliefs. Guzman and Roberts also discuss the role of great questions in sparking meaningful conversations, and how we can not only get along with, but even learn from, those with whom we ardently disagree.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Econ Talk, Conversations for the Curious, part of the Library of Economics
0:07.0	and Liberty.
0:08.0	I'm your host, Russ Roberts of Shalem College in Jerusalem and Stanford University's Hoover
0:13.0	Institution.
0:14.0	Go to econtalk.org where you can subscribe, comment on this episode and find links down
0:18.6	the information related to today's conversation.
0:21.6	You'll also find our archives with every episode we've done going back to 2006.
0:26.8	Our email address is mail at econtalk.org.
0:30.3	We'd love to hear from you.
0:37.8	Today is November 23rd, 2022 and my guest is journalist and author Monica Guzman.
0:43.8	She is the senior fellow at Brave or Angels, her latest book.
0:47.5	And our topic for today is I never thought of it that way how to have fearlessly curious
0:52.4	conversations in dangerously divided times.
0:55.8	Monica, welcome to econtalk.
0:57.8	Oh, thank you so much for having me.
0:59.9	This is an absolutely lovely book.
1:02.8	You are a self-professed liberal.
1:07.1	And I've read and interviewed a number of people in this program about the challenge of
1:12.2	conversation, the challenge of partisanship, the level of anger in our discourse.
1:18.7	And interestingly, I think all those books that I've read and interviewed people about
1:24.4	are written by liberals.
1:26.9	But yours is the most, maybe the only one that is fair to conservatives.
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