Thomas Chatterton Williams on the Age of False Certainty
The Good Fight · New America
August 2, 202557m 16s
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Show Notes
Yascha Mounk and Thomas Chatterton Williams explore what the summer of 2020 showed about America.
Thomas Chatterton Williams is a staff writer at The Atlantic and the author of Losing My Cool, Self-Portrait in Black and White, and Summer of Our Discontent. He is a visiting professor of humanities and senior fellow at the Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College, a 2022 Guggenheim fellow, and a visiting fellow at AEI.
In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Thomas Chatterton Williams discuss why the summer of 2020 played out as it did, the subsequent backlash, and why ideas core to the 2020 protests have now been quietly abandoned.
Podcast production by Jack Shields and Leonora Barclay.
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