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Show Notes
Mike talks with Paul Starr, a professor of sociology and public affairs at Princeton University and the author of multiple books, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Social Transformation of American Medicine. His latest book is American Contradiction: Revolution and Revenge from the 1950s to Now, which they discuss in this episode
Topics Mike & Paul cover include:
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Trumpism as ‘total revenge’
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why American politics is a ‘tie game Democrats have been losing’
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America as a new people in an old nation
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the illusion of past consensus
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the rise of conservative counter-institutions
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the Democrats ‘demographics is destiny’ myth
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immigration, identity, and the limits of tolerance
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