Conservatism

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The left has really captured culture and institutions in a way that the right hasn't. The morons who marched in Charlottesville don't have significant cultural power, but their equivalence on the left does. It's intellectually and ethically, trivially easy to point out what's wrong with the far right. What's wrong with Black Lives Matter? Or how was the video of Derek Chauvin killing George Floyd not proof we have an omnipresent problem with racist cops killing young Black men? And so that's, there's much more to pick apart there. But the other asymmetry that is truly enormous is in the political derangement of the Democrat and Republican parties at the moment.

Sam Harris speaks with Jonah Goldberg about the state of American politics and civil society. They discuss the hyperpartisanship of the Left and Right, what Trump has done to the Republican party, the breakdown of trust in institutions, the “new catastrophism” enabled by social media, the problem of populism, and other topics.

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