Rebroadcast: Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt on democracy, social media and how to fix America's 'ailing' institutions
On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti
WBUR
4.3 • 3.9K Ratings
🗓️ 14 December 2022
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt says America is in trouble.
He sees it on college campuses and through social media.
Haidt joins Meghna Chakrabarti to discuss democracy, social media and how to fix America's 'ailing' institutions.
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| 1:09.3 | I'm Megna Chacrabardi. |
| 1:11.3 | American politics has often been an arena for angry minds. |
| 1:17.8 | So wrote the prize-winning historian Richard Hofstadter back in 1964 |
| 1:23.0 | in his legendary essay, The Paranoid Style in American Politics. |
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