The Right's Politics Starts With Feelings

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Right understands that these big feelings are not themselves a politics, but they are the raw material for the political entrepreneur. The right starts with understanding that it's got to be really hard to be knocked by China off of the script that your daddy and your grand daddy gave you. And what I long for is for the pro-democracy movement to say, Oh, we can't just walk into that roiling electorate full of big feelings in this moment in time.

This is the third episode in a three-part series about how to have difficult conversations with people who see the world differently, how to have better debates about contentious issues, and how to ethically and scientifically persuade one another about things that matter – in short, this is a three-part series about How Minds Change (which is also the title of my new book).

There seems to be a movement afoot, a new wave of nonfiction about how to reduce all this argumentative madness and epistemic chaos. I want to boost everyone’s signal on this issue, so I thought it would be nice to collaborate instead of compete, since that’s part of what we are all proselytizing with these books.

So this episode’s guest is Anand Giridharadas, the author of The Persuaders – a book about activists, politicians, educators, and everyday citizens who are on the ground working to change minds, bridge divisions, and fight for democracy.

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