Is There a Positive Future?

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i think there will be legislative changes, but not by the us. I'm hopeful that in many states we'll copy alaska and change their primary system. We have to harden our political institutions. There are reform movements that might work. And i've never written an article like this where nobody is attacking it. Nobody has even said that i'm wrong. So i do feel a sense of exhaustion with what's going on right now. But perhaps you can put the pieces together if ten years from now, you write an equally viral article saying, you know what? Everything was stupid there for a decade, and then things started to improve. What will that history say? That's te

One of the world’s most influential social psychologists, a professor of ethical leadership at NYU's Stern School of Business, and a member of Persuasion's Board of Advisors, Jonathan Haidt is the author of The Righteous Mind and, with Greg Lukianoff, co-author of The Coddling of the American Mind. Haidt recently wrote a much-read feature in The Atlantic entitled “After Babel.”

In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Jonathan Haidt discuss how we can make social media less toxic, what political and technological reforms might help fix the problem, and how we can empower the moderate majority to fight for its values.

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