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ENCORE: Our Own Worst Enemy — Part 2
Season 2 · Episode 149

ENCORE: Our Own Worst Enemy — Part 2

Tom Nichols on his new book Our Own Worst Enemy: The Assault from Within on Democracy

Politicology

July 6, 202251m 17s

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In this two-episode conversation, Professor of National Security Affairs Tom Nichols joins Ron Steslow to discuss who is really to blame for the crisis in American democracy—and what we can do about it.


(00:50) The “horseshoe theory” 


(06:56) Why globalization isn’t the boogeyman we think it is


(18:42) Civic duty and the pro democracy changes we need to make


(38:08) Figures who we can model 



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