Why is America so polarized? How does American exceptionalism explain these social changes?
What divides Americans from the world and from each other? Stanford Law professor Mugambi Jouet discusses his new book Exceptional America which tackles why Americans are far more divided than other Westerners over basic issues, including wealth inequality, health care, climate change, evolution, gender roles, abortion, gay rights, sex, gun control, mass incarceration, the death penalty, torture, human rights, and war.
Speakers
Mugambi Jouet
Mugambi Jouet teaches at Stanford Law School and is a frequent media commentator. His research focuses on U.S. criminal law, constitutional law, and policymaking from a multidisciplinary perspective encompassing history, sociology, political science, and the humanities.
Politics
The Age of Illusions
Andrew Bacevich, Professor Emeritus of International Relations and History at the Boston University, discusses his new book, The Age of Illusions: How America Squandered Its Cold War Victory.
Politics
OUTCLASSED
Joan C. Williams, Professor of Law at UC San Francisco, discusses her book Outclassed: How the Left Lost the Working Class and How to Get Them Back. Williams sends out an urgent wake-up call to mend the broken relationship between college and non-college grads of all races, that is driving politics to the far right in America.
General
Coming Up Short: A Memoir of My America
Robert Reich’s latest book Coming Up Short: A Memoir of My America is a deeply felt, compelling memoir of growing up in a baby-boom America that made progress in certain areas, but fell short in so many important ways, and still has lots of work to do.