Mike talks with Paul Starr, a professor of sociology and public affairs at Princeton University and the author of multiple books, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Social Transformation of American Medicine. His latest book is <a href="https://www.amazon.com/American-Contradiction-Revolution-Revenge-1950s/dp/0300282435/ref=sr_1_1?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.v0Vetngk4rrD-O0XnuJw58PhybmBqwxfLEg8E-z_XxmmnticmgvOxckx8P6g5pm2L5IaCJ-1SKXX6RYQuELZtqc1UzS5hpWg420LYUo_IK9j9T5TGYuOZ7RYZVVdoXWKuQuneQqyJEzfKTcN9omvNtKygdOVsbMVWv46vNfItPeZ2ZecHtUrYD0GVlRidOoIvQlu4ScxpKmsbD_t3_9lOeEP1daEhQeDVDIFG8BXYX4.PP0Ci2ZoNlauCJ-30OmrbUOQTTRx71xuusYqx2m5C4c&dib_tag=se&keywords=american+contradiction&qid=1760449320&sr=8-1">American Contradiction: Revolution and Revenge from the 1950s to Now</a>, which they discuss in this episode
Topics Mike & Paul cover include:
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Trumpism as ‘total revenge’
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why American politics is a ‘tie game Democrats have been losing’
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America as a new people in an old nation
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the illusion of past consensus
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the rise of conservative counter-institutions
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the Democrats ‘demographics is destiny’ myth
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immigration, identity, and the limits of tolerance
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