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.
Episode 531: FRANCES MOORE LAPPE-50 Years Since DIET FOR A SMALL PLANET introduced a plant-based diet to most Americans
Episode 530: DON BARLETT & JIM STEELE-The BETRAYAL of the AMERICAN DREAM (2012)
Episode 529: BILL McKIBBEN-Time to Mobilize Boomers vs Climate Change
Episode 528: Facebook Doesn’t Care-SHERRY TURKLE(2011)-ALONE TOGETHER: Why We expect More from Technology, Less from Each other
Episode 527: Legal lightning rounds: ERWIN CHEMERINSKY - Supreme Court, abortion, voter suppression, Covid mandates, police accountability
Episode 526: Let’s listen to vets’ stories-PAULA CAPLAN (2011) WHEN JOHNNY & JANE COME MARCHING HOME
Episode 525: A Clean Energy Jobs Plan for California-Economist ROBERT POLLIN & Union leader DAVE CAMPBELL
Episode 525: JEREMY SCAHILL-DIRTY WARS (2013)-Out of Afghanistan. What about the rest of the world?
Episode 524: JULIE BATTILANA-POWER FOR ALL-What is it? How do we obtain and use it to change the world?
Episode 523: MARK DANNER (2017)-Our tragic failure in Afghanistan-SPIRAL: Trapped in Forever War
Episode 522: GEORGE PACKER-Four naratives of America that divide us-LAST BEST HOPE
Episode 521: The Science of Why We Don't Believe Science CHRIS MOONEY (2011) author, The Republican War on Science
Episode 520: DAVID KAISER-How predictable were today’s crises? What happens when we forget history?
Episode 519: In need of a nudge toward mindfulness? JON KABAT ZINN and TRUDY GOODMAN (2010)
Episode 518: Can we dare to think humans are kind? RUTGER BREGMAN, HUMANKIND: A Hopeful History
Episode 517: ARI BERMAN (2017)-GIVE US THE BALLOT: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America
Episode 516: Federal Judge JED RAKOFF-WHY THE INNOCENT PLEAD GUILTY AND THE GUILTY GO FREE
Episode 515: WINNER-TAKE-ALL POLITICS-JACOB HACKER & PAUL PIERSON (2011) Best book on How DC Turned Its Back on the Middle Class
Episode 514: ALEC MacGILLIS - How is Amazon changing us? FULFILLMENT: Winning and Losing in One-Click America
Episode 513: DANIEL ELLSBERG (2009) - Pentagon Papers published 50 years ago this month
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