478. How Can We Break Our Addiction to Contempt?

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478. How Can We Break Our Addiction to Contempt?

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Oct 14, 2021

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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?

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Oct 14, 2021

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