The Future of Democracy with Yascha Mounk

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🗓️ 19 April 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Ravi sits down with Yascha Mounk to talk about his new book, "The Great Experiment: Why Diverse Democracies Fall Apart and How They Can Endure," a tailor-made read for Lost Debate listeners. Ravi and Yascha go through the fraying aspects of American democracy while putting a hopeful lens on what it's getting right. Mounk puts the state of global democracy in its vast historical context, arguing today represents unprecedented success for democratic ideals despite growing threats to its preeminence as a desirable system of governance. Melding history, comparative politics and social science, Yascha makes the case that democracy -- including America's -- can still overcome the challenges facing it today while acknowledging their seriousness, including in-group/out-group instincts, how we teach our own history, and media polarization. Subscribe to The Lost Debate’s YouTube channel: https://bit.ly/3Gs5YTF Sticher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-lost-debate iheart: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-the-lost-debate-88330217/ Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.co.uk/podcasts/752ca262-2801-466d-9654-2024de72bd1f/the-lost-debate LOST DEBATE ON SOCIAL: Follow Lost Debate Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lostdebate/ Follow Lost Debate on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lostdebate Follow Lost Debate on Twitter: https://twitter.com/thelostdebate

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0:00.0	People can be true to who they are.
0:02.0	Nothing wrong at all with saying
0:04.0	it's important to me to be a member of this or that,
0:06.0	cultural, ethnic or religious community, that's fine.
0:08.0	But we also need institutions in society
0:11.0	that emphasize what we have in common,
0:13.0	that try to create commonality,
0:14.0	but try to create spaces where people come to trust each other,
0:17.0	because that's the kind of thing that makes us resilient
0:20.0	against the violence
0:21.1	that diverse societies have fallen into so often.
0:30.3	Welcome to The Lost Debate, a show for politically eclectics.
0:33.0	I'm Robbie Gupta, and this is a special episode of The Lost Debate.
0:36.5	You know, for those of you who are
0:37.5	longtime listeners most of our episodes are me Corey and Ricky discussing and debating the issues of
0:43.6	the day and that's what you can expect from us on Thursday but today I wanted to take a step back
0:48.8	and talk to my friend Yasha Monk. Yasha is a German-American political scientist, writer,
0:53.8	academic and public speaker
0:55.2	known for his work on the crisis of democracy and the defense of philosophically liberal
0:59.5	values. He's a contributor to the foreign affairs, Atlantic, and he founded the online magazine
1:04.9	Persuasion. And he has a book that's coming out today called The Great Experiment, Why Diverse
1:10.6	Democracies Fall Apart and How
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