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 American Contradiction: Revolution and Revenge from the 1950s to Now, 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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