As we fasten our seatbelts and plunge into the 2024 campaign, here are two conversations worth a re-listen. From 2007, I talk with DREW WESTEN about the ideas and advice in his influential book, THE POLITICAL BRAIN: The Role of Emotion in Deciding the Fate of the Nation. Westen: Democrats almost always present the best arguments but lose elections to Republicans who have mastered the art of emotion and story-telling. In the second half, my 2009 conversation with BERNIE HORN of the Leadership Training Institute about FRAMING THE FUTURE: How Progressive Values Can Win Elections and Influence People. Horn: Persuadable voters make choices depending on how political issues and questions are framed. Emotion, framing, narratives. Trump traffics in all three.
Nick Kristof & Sheryl WuDunn-TIGHTROPE-Americans in Despair Reaching for Hope
STEPHAN SCHWARTZ-8 LAWS OF CHANGE: How to Be an Agent of Personal and Social Transformation
AARON GLANTZ- HOMEWRECKERS: How Wall Street Suckered Millions Out of Their Homes and Put the American Dream Out of Reach
Take a break-1) Roco Belic, Happy doc 2) Rafe Esquith, 5th Grade Shakespearians
ANDREW BACEVICH-How US Squandered Its Cold War Victory - Paving the Way for Trump
HEDRICK SMITH’s PBS doc THE DEMOCRACY REBELLION celebrates grassroots reform victories
PAULA DANIELS-Transforming the American Food System One School District at a Time
Who was Jesus? REZA ASLAN, Zealot: The Life & Times of Jesus of Nazareth
MICHAEL APTED, 63 UP - the unique documentary series 56 years in the making
How did we get here? HENRY LOUIS GATES, America Behind the Color Line (2004)
How did we get here? PAUL KRUGMAN, The Great Unraveling (2003)
60s.2.0 Meets OK Boomer - Necessary Allies
LAWRENCE LESSIG-They’re Not Representing Us-and what we need to do about it
JOHN NICHOLS - Getting Impeachment Right & Winning the Rust Belt in 2020
FOR SAMA- Best doc at Cannes & SXSW - inside the siege of Aleppo, Syria
The Book Behind the Wealth Tax - EMMANUEL SAEZ, Triumph of Injustice
NEW: JEREMY RIFKIN - The Green New Deal
WAR ON WHISTLEBLOWERS (2013 documentary) THOMAS TAMM & FRANZ GAYL, punished under Bush and Obama
NEW: JONATHAN BLANK, Sex, Drugs & Bicycles - How does Holland do it?
American Heroes-GEORGE McGOVERN & HOWARD ZINN
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