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The Good Gamble [Rebroadcast]
Democracy in Danger
English - June 14, 2023 12:00 - 44.1 MBSociety & Culture News Politics democracy election history illiberalism media news politics unitedstates world Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Catch up this summer on what you’ve missed. Today, legal scholar Jedediah Purdy joins Will and Siva to talk about the people and the law. Can Americans transcend gross inequality, neoliberal ideology, and the “politics of nihilism” taking root among their leaders? Looking to Frederick Douglass for inspiration, Purdy thinks so. His says citizens need to reimagine and rebuild the body politic — to rule themselves at last. It may be a crapshoot, but it’s one a free people can’t afford to let pass.