America’s Great Experiment — with Yascha Mounk and Faisal Al Yafai

At a moment when it seems as if Americans can’t agree on anything — when political divisions seem to run deeper than they have since the Civil Rights Movement — political scientist, professor and pundit Yascha Mounk of Johns Hopkins University remains optimistic that an answer can be found. His latest book, “The Great Experiment: Why Diverse Democracies Fall Apart and How They Can Endure,” combs through history, psychology and personal experience in search of that answer. In this podcast with New Lines Magazine's Faisal Al Yafai, he shares his thoughts on how to make a diverse, democratic America work. They discuss whether diverse democracies pose unique challenges, what the United States can learn from Lebanon and whether U.S. government reparations for slavery could ever work. Produced by Joshua Martin