The Most Dangerous Idea in America

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I'm worried about the way we just habitually talk about whites and people of colour in the united states. I think genographyis destiny, arguet y. One of the most dangerous ideas is this idea that america is about to become a majority minority. This should be something that is enticing to me in some kind of way, but it's not right. i don't like the idea of walking down the street 20 years from now and being able to tell who somebody is voting for by looking at the color of her skin. It can be an important part of ther identity. But were able to to work with each other, to co operate, rather than to see each other

Yascha Mounk is a professor at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies, a contributing writer at The Atlantic, and the founder of Persuasion. His new book, The Great Experiment: Why Diverse Democracies Fall Apart and How They Can Endure, was published this week.

In this week’s conversation, Ravi Gupta and Yascha Mounk discuss why it is so hard to build diverse democracies, how we can overcome the deeply human instinct to discriminate against those unlike ourselves, and why he remains optimistic about the prospects of the “great experiment.”

This transcript has been condensed and lightly edited for clarity.

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