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66: Embracing Commitment in an Age of Infinite Browsing, with Pete Davis

Where We Go Next

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The Problem of Diversity in American Life

The story we tell ourselves about a thing is what the thing becomes. And I think we see that playing out writ large in politics and on the internet, like people having a sometimes quite acrimonious fight about what the story of America should be. Do you think that Tocqueville was talking about America's embrace of smaller individual communities? We get to decide democratically communally, not through a vote where we all decide, but through cultural advocacy," he says.

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