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Sam Harris: I hadn't spent much time thinking about the British monarchy. But Andrew Sullivan just wrote a really wonderful short piece, Morning the Loss of the Queen. It strikes me now that a monarch, when she or he is actually functioning as intended, is the opposite of a scapegoat.

Sam Harris speaks with Jonah Goldberg about the state of American politics and civil society. They discuss the hyperpartisanship of the Left and Right, what Trump has done to the Republican party, the breakdown of trust in institutions, the “new catastrophism” enabled by social media, the problem of populism, and other topics.

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