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Anand Giridharadas on the elite charade of changing the world

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

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The Negative Bias in American Politics

i think this is a view people will have but is not one we've explored so there is nothing more popular on a certain level right now in american life than being extremely pessimistic about the state of society. want to offer what's also a sort of radical critique of the book but from the status quo direction. If you are appended or calmness or some kind of public thinker and you come out and you say things are pretty good you sound like a asshole whereas if you come in and say things are terrible my class is part of the problemyou sound like a brave truth tellerright that's i think one of the um biases one could argue with steven pincher's book

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