How Do You Write Good Interviews With People You Do Not Like?

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i feel a natural ion between not liking people, and not liking their ideas. In fact, it's far more fun to be talking to some one present company. Journalism has a very clear moral stance. It is evident that you do not like these people and do not support their political endeavour. How is it possible to take seriously the ideology of people who disagree with to be respectful to them?

Graeme Wood is a staff writer for The Atlantic and a lecturer in political science at Yale University. He is the author of The Way of the Strangers: Encounters with the Islamic State.

In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Graeme Wood discuss why the January 6th insurrection does not resemble other coups; his experience interviewing Mohammed bin Salman and being Richard Spencer's middle school lab partner; and the need for general interest journalists whose curiosity is not constrained by their identity.

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