The Power of Deep Canvassing

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There are people who just will support a losing team in their mind. And they hate trans people. These things sit on totally different shelves of their brain. Those two things are actually in tension with each other, but they're not an active tension for that person right now. That was not inevitable for you either. They are subject to forces and counter forces and counter counter forces within them that could go in different ways.

This is the third episode in a three-part series about how to have difficult conversations with people who see the world differently, how to have better debates about contentious issues, and how to ethically and scientifically persuade one another about things that matter – in short, this is a three-part series about How Minds Change (which is also the title of my new book).

There seems to be a movement afoot, a new wave of nonfiction about how to reduce all this argumentative madness and epistemic chaos. I want to boost everyone’s signal on this issue, so I thought it would be nice to collaborate instead of compete, since that’s part of what we are all proselytizing with these books.

So this episode’s guest is Anand Giridharadas, the author of The Persuaders – a book about activists, politicians, educators, and everyday citizens who are on the ground working to change minds, bridge divisions, and fight for democracy.

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