The United States of Anxiety is Back!

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4.6 • 8.7K Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2017

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

This season, the WNYC team talks to culture warriors, past and present, who have influenced debates over race, religion, science, sexuality, gender and more.

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0:00.0	During the election season, our colleagues in the WNYC Newsroom produced a great podcast called the United States of Anxiety, trying to gauge and explain the rising tension at both sides of the political spectrum.
0:15.6	They have a new season beginning today, and we like the first episode so much we're featuring it here as a podcast extra.
0:23.4	Here's how they described the upcoming season.
0:26.7	Donald Trump understands something very important about American democracy.
0:30.9	If you want to control the debate over policy, you first got to conquer our political culture, our values, our norms, shared
0:40.1	assumptions, what we feel and believe about ourselves. But the battle to capture America's
0:45.7	political culture has a long history. On race and gender, science, and religion, matters of
0:51.8	sex and media and war and peace, all of it.
0:55.2	There's a backstory.
0:57.4	We left you on November 10, 2016, what feels like eons ago.
1:03.3	I, Donald John Trump, do solemnly swear.
1:06.7	He won all of it.
1:09.4	This is not a Muslim ban. It's not a travel ban.
1:12.6	Our press secretary gave alternative facts to that.
1:16.6	For the first time ever, the Dow Jones closed above 20,000 points.
1:20.6	Donald Trump has now been president for 100 nerve-wracking days,
1:24.6	so we are back to take stop.
1:32.0	I'm Kai Wright, and from WNYC Studios,
1:35.4	this is round two of the United States of Anxiety.
1:38.6	The Culture Wars.
1:42.1	Black, right, right, right, right, USA!
1:44.0	USA! USA! For the next week U.S. U.S. U.S.
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