The Importance of Culture in American Life

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Sally Kohn: There is a move within parts of the Republican Party to try to actively appeal to the working class. She asks if you can sort of be a vanguard of an economic revolution within the Republican Party and we're going to see a more radical shift in partisan alignment over the next 10 or 20 years?Kohn: I think what's happened since then is a real shift towards culture as the driving force of our partisan divide. But there also still are very longstanding links between the Republican party and the business community.

Sohrab Ahmari is a writer, commentator, and the founding editor of Compact. He is the author of Tyranny, Inc.: How Private Power Crushed American Liberty–and What to Do About It.

In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Sohrab Ahmari discuss the threat corporate power poses to individual freedom in the United States; whether liberalism has gone too far in prioritizing individual autonomy over the common good; and why they disagree about whether attempting to move beyond liberalism would make things better or worse.

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