The Quiet Before with Gal Beckerman

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Society & Culture, Daily News, News, Politics

4.7 • 8.4K Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Host Reed Galen is joined by Author and Senior Book Editor at The Atlantic, Gal Beckerman. They discuss how radical ideas originate and the workings of the movements that form around them, how social media is not the catch all solution when it comes to messaging, and how in order for an idea to truly take hold…a crucial part of the process is rational dialog/strategy in a quiet, private (not public) place. For more on this be sure to pick up Gal Beckerman’s latest book, The Quiet Before: On the Unexpected Origins of Radical Ideas, wherever fine books are sold. If you’d like to connect with The Lincoln Project, send an email to [email protected].

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0:00.0	Hey, everyone, it's Reid.
0:01.2	Before we get started, 2023 is underway.
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0:24.4	And now on with the show.
0:26.2	Welcome back to the Lincoln Project.
0:36.2	I'm your host, Reid Gaillin.
0:38.2	Today, I'm joined by Gal Becker, author and senior book editor at the Atlantic.
0:43.3	Prior to the Atlantic, he was an editor at the New York Times Book Review,
0:46.7	and also served as the opinion editor at the forward newspaper,
0:50.0	and a staff editor and writer at the Columbia Journalism Review.
0:54.1	Over the years, he's been a Peace Corps volunteer in Cameroon,
0:57.2	lived in Berlin as a German Chancellor Fellow
0:59.7	with the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation,
1:02.4	and broke his arm almost in half while biking cross France.
1:05.5	His latest book, The Quiet Before,
1:07.6	on the unexpected origins of radical ideas,
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