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Why I Won't Tell My Students Who I'm Voting For – DTH Episode 339 with April Chatham-Carpenter

2026-10-2840:19

Send Wilk a text with your feedback! (incoming msgs only - I can't reply) This episode opens a new Derate the Hate series built around the Braver Angels Civic Scholars Council, a cross-partisan group of scholars and practitioners writing about what courageous citizenship looks like in practice. The series came out of a suggestion from Harry Boyte, and it sits close to home for Wilk, who works at Braver Angels and helped shape the organization's courageous citizenship direction. First up is A...

You Can’t Name Injustice Without Knowing What Justice Is – DTH Episode 338 with John Adams

2026-10-2137:18

Send Wilk a text with your feedback! (incoming msgs only - I can't reply) Most of us talk about injustice all the time. Far fewer of us stop to ask what justice actually is. John Adams has spent years with that question, first reading the great books in hotel rooms between deals, then translating them into games and puzzles as a youth pastor, and now in his novel, The Third Phase. The book grew out of a conversation with his daughters on their annual trip to New York. They were frustrated wi...

Friendship Across the Political Divide: Lessons From William F. Buckley Jr. – DTH Episode 337 with Josh Cohen

2026-10-1437:43

Send Wilk a text with your feedback! (incoming msgs only - I can't reply) William F. Buckley Jr. had strong opinions and never apologized for them. He also spent forty years as close friends with liberal economist John Kenneth Galbraith, and decades more as a friend of Ira Glasser, longtime head of the ACLU. When a fellow conservative publicly complained that Buckley had too many liberal friends, Buckley’s reply was that he didn’t spend his time with them discussing politics. Josh Cohen’s bo...

Crossing the Bridge: Courageous Communication and the Stories We Tell Ourselves – DTH Episode 336 with Trime Persinger

2026-10-0738:03

Send Wilk a text with your feedback! (incoming msgs only - I can't reply) Trime Persinger’s homework assignment was simple: take ten “you” statements and turn them into “I” statements. She couldn’t do the first one. “You make me angry” was the language she grew up with, and she didn’t have another way to say it. Her instructor stayed after class and wrote all ten for her. That moment set Trime on the path that became courageous communication and her new book, Crossing the Bridge: Heal Your R...

Change the Incentives, Change the Politics – DTH Episode 335 with Matt Koesters

2026-09-3038:16

Send Wilk a text with your feedback! (incoming msgs only - I can't reply) Matt Koesters didn’t come to electoral reform through theory. He came to it by watching it happen. As a reporter in southern Indiana, he covered a sheriff’s race where the winner needed just 37.7 percent of the vote, because the majority split its support between two candidates. The result reshaped local politics almost overnight. When a crowded 2016 presidential primary field divided support in much the same way, Matt...

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