#296 — Repairing Our Country

Sam Harris speaks with Jonah Goldberg about the state of American
politics and civil society. They discuss the hyperpartisanship of
the Left and Right, what Trump has done to the Republican party,
the breakdown of trust in institutions, the “new catastrophism”
enabled by social media, the problem of populism, and other
topics.


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