Freakonomics Radio

478. How Can We Break Our Addiction to Contempt?

Oct 14, 2021

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The Science of Contempt

02:24

Is Love a Verb or a Noun?

01:59

Are You a Victim or a Perpetrator of Contempt?

02:08

Introduction

3min

The Latent Demand Strategy That Arthur Brooks Defends

2min

Can Love Really Conquer All?

2min

How to Build Tronger Communities and Fight Partisanship

3min

The Contempt of the Markets - What the Hell?

2min

The Science of Contempt

2min

Are You a Victim or a Perpetrator of Contempt?

2min

Is Love a Verb or a Noun?

2min

Arthur Brookes's Love for the Cable News Networks

2min

10.

Is There Something Missing?

2min

11.

What Is Discernment?

3min

12.

Is There a Hard Time Finding a Chief Executive?

2min

13.

Is Your Bias Scratched?

3min

14.

Dolly Lama, Is It Really That Simple?

2min

15.

Is There a Common Enemy of Contempt in the United States?

3min

16.

I've Got the Ear of a Few and Stephen, I Want More.

2min

17.

What Are You Willing to Fail For?

2min

18.

The Best Ways to Fight Contempt

2min

19.

The Economist's Guide to Parenting on Freconomics Radio

3min

Arthur Brooks is an economist who for 10 years ran the American Enterprise Institute, one of the most influential conservative think tanks in the world. He has come to believe there is only one weapon that can defeat our extreme political polarization: love. Is Brooks a fool for thinking this — and are you perhaps his kind of fool?