What Would It Mean for the United States to Fail?

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i think we're the most racially and ethnically diverse country in the world? Is that true? We're one of them anywa. So the idea that it's not working is inaccurate. It is incredibly working. Look at other societies in the world, cultures in the world where there may be just two different groups. And things are just on every level. If you ask kids in america they don't know shit about anything. They don't know what the seventeenth century is. The ignorance is pervasive. There's going to be this continued collapse with people with extreme wealth who will have nothing more than a third-rate version of what we thought once was possible. That's inspiring

Caitlin Flanagan, a staff writer at The Atlantic, is one of America's most incisive essayists. In her articles about a wide range of topics including modern motherhood, the politics of higher education, and the state of the abortion debate, she skewers consensus views with her trademark wit.

In this week’s conversation, Caitlin Flanagan and Yascha Mounk discuss her coming-of-age in 1960s Berkeley, the evolution of freedom of speech, and whether America has a future.

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