Despite this self-correcting mechanism in the US Constitution, our American experiment has been feeling particularly fragile lately. And I was interested to hear you say that you see the actual ideological differences between Republicans and Democrats in the United States today, as smaller than they were in the 1960s or other times. But it sure doesn't feel that way on the ground. Do you want to make this case that actually our differences are smaller? And how is it that we can have comparatively small ideological differences and yet be unable to talk to each other? Yeah, that's the big question. I don't have an easy answer. We still need to research that.
Yuval Noah Harari is a historian and philosopher whose books — "Sapiens," "Homo Deus," "21 Lessons for the 21st Century," and most recently "Unstoppable Us: How Humans Took Over the World" — have sold more than 40 million copies. He joins Rufus for a wide-ranging conversation about storytelling, life in the Stone Age, the future of democracy, and the threat of AI.
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