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Stay Tuned with Preet

Revolutions, from 1600 to Trump (with Fareed Zakaria)

Stay Tuned with Preet

Vox Media Podcast Network

Politics, Government, News, Society & Culture

4.832.4K Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2024

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

Fareed Zakaria is the host of CNN’s Fareed Zakaria GPS and a foreign affairs columnist at the Washington Post. He joins Preet to discuss his new book Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present, and how this current moment of global political fracture mirrors societal upheavals of the past.  Plus, could the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals remove Judge Cannon on its own accord? Will the Manhattan DA’s trial against Trump actually start on April 15th? And, what are Preet’s thoughts on the relationship between AI and democracy? For show notes and a transcript of the episode head to: https://cafe.com/stay-tuned/fareed-zakaria-revolutions-book-politics/  Have a question for Preet? Ask @PreetBharara on Threads, or Twitter with the hashtag #AskPreet. Email us at staytuned@cafe.com, or call 669-247-7338 to leave a voicemail. Stay Tuned with Preet is brought to you by CAFE and the Vox Media Podcast Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

From Cafe and the Vox Media Podcast Network, welcome to stay tuned.

0:05.0

I'm Preet Barara.

0:08.0

The revolution we're in right now is happening much faster.

0:12.8

So think about the digital revolution.

0:15.7

We have basically replaced the economy of atoms

0:19.7

with an economy of bits and bites. That's Farid Zakaria.

0:27.0

He's a long-time political commentator,

0:32.0

an expert on both domestic and global politics.

0:35.5

Zakaria has hosted CNN's Farid Zakaria GPS since 2008, and writes a foreign affairs column

0:41.8

for the Washington Post.

0:43.0

Drawing on his deep knowledge of politics and history,

0:46.0

Zakaria has written a new book called Age of Revolutions,

0:50.0

Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the present.

0:54.0

In it, he explores a number of revolutionary periods and the people who made them,

0:58.0

from early Dutch inventors to French uprisers to American coal workers.

1:03.0

We talk about the past and how it might help us make sense of our current

1:07.0

revolutionary moment in politics and culture, from Trump to AI.

1:12.0

And we cover a bit of pressing global news too.

1:15.2

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1:35.4

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1:42.1

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