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.
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Episode 562: When the news is fast, furious, stressful-JON KABAT ZINN, COMING TO OUR SENSES: HEALING OURSELVES AND THE WORLD THROUGH MINDFULNESS
Episode 561: How did the 60s lead to both 1973 and 2022? KEVIN BOYLE, THE SHATTERING: AMERICA IN THE 1960S
Episode 560: FOR SAMA (2019) Oscar-nominated doc - civilians under Russian fire in the siege of Aleppo, Syria
Episode 559: What if a stroke strikes you or a loved one? JILL BOLTE TAYLOR, MY STROKE OF INSIGHT
Episode 558: PART 2 - Ahead of her time-HAZEL HENDERSON (2013) activist, green economist, global citizen, dies at 89
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Episode 556: Why are we addicted to more? LEIDY KLOTZ, SUBTRACT: The Untapped Science of Less
Episode 555: After Buffalo-CHIP BERLET (2017), investigator of hate groups, author, Right Wing Populism in America
Episode 554: Are Antibiotics Doomed? DAVID HYUN & ERIN DUFFY on the Crisis No One Talks About
Episode 553: LINDA GREENHOUSE (2021) - JUSTICE ON THE BRINK - 12 Months that Transformed the Supreme Court
Episode 552: BILL McKIBBEN-THIRD ACT-New Movement to Mobilize Boomers vs Climate Change
Episode 551: ELIE MYSTAL, ALLOW ME TO RETORT: A Black Guy’s Guide to the Constitution
Episode 550: Can the press or international law influence Putin? MARIA ARMOUDIAN, REPORTING FROM THE DANGER ZONE; LAWYERS BEYOND BORDERS
Episode 549: Will Putin use nukes? JOE CIRINCIONE, author, BOMB SCARE and NUCLEAR NIGHTMARES
Episode 548: DAVE PELL writes the excellent daily newsletter, NEXT DRAFT, and now a pandemic book, PLEASE SCREAM INSIDE YOUR HEART
Episode 547: LARRY KOPALD, The Carbon Underground - We can reverse climate change and restore the soil with regenerative agriculture.
Episode 546: Are stories dangerous? JONATHAN GOTTSCHALL, THE STORY PARADOX: How Our Love of Storytelling Builds Societies and Tears Them Down
Episode 545: TIM JACKSON, Imagining a just sustainable future-POST GROWTH: Life After Capitalism
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