This chapter explores the speaker's research on whether voters are willing to bear short-term costs for long-term benefits, using the example of addressing climate change. They compare this concept to the marshmallow test in psychology to determine if the American public would be willing to contribute now to avoid negative consequences in the future.
What was media like? How has media changed? In this episode, we talk to Princeton Professor Markus Prior about the architecture of public media, over the period of what he calls "broadcast democracy," and in the period we're living within today. How does that architecture affect the politics that is possible?