Phone calls are passed A. Should they be? Faculty at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business

are exploring how less text-based messaging and more talking could improve communication.

Discover more at www.shakagobooth.edu-communications.

Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Believe in these unalienable rights,

largely unites America how to achieve them does not.

While the left argues an active state can guarantee more equal access to that American dream,

conservatives hold the vision to be impossible without individual freedom and responsibility.

But in a global pandemic, liberty is inevitably limited.

The individual pursuit of happiness is on hold, under strict lockdowns, and in some places

behind obligatory masks. Government handouts attempt to safeguard our collective economic futures,

but at what long-term cost? The arguments aren't only about the science or how we interpret data,

they're bringing out divides in world views and tapping into contrasts in long contested political

philosophies. You're listening to the economist asks, I'm Anne McHellboy, and this week we're asking

how is the coronavirus changing American conservatism?

My guest is Dan Crenshaw. Since 2018 he's been the Republican representative for Texas's second

congressional district. Before that he served 10 years as a Navy SEAL in Iraq and Afghanistan,

badly wounded, losing the sight in his right eye among other injuries. As a congressman since

he's been a prominent voice for a new generation of American conservatives. Not of the Republican's

stripy tie model. He's at home in the skirmishes of social media, taking an allegedly over-sensitive

American left to task and getting some heat in return. He hosts the podcast, Hull These Truths,

and his author of a new book, Fortitude American Resilience in the Era of Outrage.

Congressman Dan Crenshaw, welcome to the economist asks.

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