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Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid
Honestly with Bari Weiss
How Social Media Is Making Our Politics Incompatible With Democracy
The founding fathers were really good social psychologists. They thought long and hard about how to make a democracy that wouldn't collapse into passions and anger. The genius of the founders was to develop a mechanism that pits different views against each other produce not just fighting, but actually a closer approximation to truth or good policy. It's this very elaborate constitutional mechanism for harnessing our passions and our differences and our shortsightedness and argumentativeness,. And there's these amazing quotes. Everybody should read federalist ten. It's one of the st and most thought provoking articles on political thery, so relevant to the present time. So we have humans who are prone to hate each other. And you give
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