Episode · The Rich Roll Podcast · 2021-11-08
Books mentioned on Andrew Yang On Grace, Tolerance & Human-Centered Government
Like many, I despair of our country’s division, which is rapidly expanding in lockstep with our inability to productively communicate alongside growing distrust in institutions and the media. Also like many, I want solutions.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Forward
Forward by Andrew Yang is part memoir and part campaign trail exposé that examines the state of modern American politics and media dysfunction.
Recommended“Andrew is the author of a few books his most recent being entitled Foreword, which is a great book. It's part memoir and also part campaign trail exposé. It's an instructive read on the dysfunctional state of politics and political media”
Where to get it
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The Righteous Mind
The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt is an insightful exploration of moral psychology that investigates why good people are divided by politics and religion.
Discussed“And that harkens to the work of Jonathan Hite, who looms large in your book. You cite him frequently, and his studies are quite fascinating in terms of the psychological differences between Democrats and Republicans. So can you elucidate that a little bit? Yeah. Jonathan is such an incredible philosopher, really. He's a friend as well. And his work on”
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Why We're Polarized
Why We're Polarized by Ezra Klein is a comprehensive analysis of the structural, political, and psychological forces driving extreme partisan division in the United States.
Discussed“As our Klein's book, Why We're Polarized, he goes through the fifties, the sixties, where the Democrats and Republicans are essentially interchangeable. They have like the same outlook, the same policy prescriptions.”
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Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Own book Forward
“Reading books by Jonathan Hyatt and Ezra Klein and Lawrence Lessig and Catherine Gale and Michael Porter, and coming to the conclusions that I came to in this book forward. And when you come to these conclusions, then you have to come to grips with, OK, what is an actual way out?”