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People vs. Politics Film
People vs. Politics: A Documentary By Fluent Knowledge Inspired by conversations from The Purple Principle Podcast. People vs. Politics is a…
Voice of Reason for Independent Minds
Voice of Reason for Independent Minds Talking Media & Polarization With CNN’s Michael Smerconish “I have been paying attention for thirty…
Like Family, Like Nation: A Braver Angel
Like Family, Like Nation: A Braver Angel Author & Bridge Builder Mónica Guzmán Mediates Polarization At Home & Nationwide Our TPP…
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Hollywood’s Fictional Presidents & the Challenges of a Polarized Audience
From the Editors | Prime Time for an Independent President… | Issue 7 | July 15,…
The Magic of Misinformation, Conspiracies, and Cults
From The Editors | The Magic of Misinformation, Conspiracies, and Cults | Issue 5 | June 2,…
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People vs. Politics Film
People vs. Politics: A Documentary By Fluent Knowledge Inspired by conversations from The Purple Principle Podcast. People vs. Politics is a new documentary that follows grassroots leaders working to reduce polarization and restore balance in American elections. Across states like Nevada, Idaho, Colorado, Montana, Alaska, and Washington, DC, these reformers are navigating different political landscapes—but…
Voice of Reason for Independent Minds
Voice of Reason for Independent Minds Talking Media & Polarization With CNN’s Michael Smerconish “I have been paying attention for thirty years,” CNN and SiriusXM host & commentator Michael Smerconish tells us. “And during that time the country has been driven into a partisan ditch.” A well-known visage from his CNN show, Smerconish is also…
Woking up to Backlash
Woking up to Backlash New York Times Columnist Thomas Edsall on Reason & Responsibility in Polarized Politics “The rise of the conservative movement on the right and the decline of liberalism on the left have been a preoccupation of mine for 40 years or more,” Thomas Edsall confides in our latest Season Two episode, “Woking…
Nicest Troll in Town
Nicest Troll in Town On- and Offline identity, Extremism, and Polarization Social media is not fundamentally a source of information or a competition of ideas, but a competition of identities. With that and other provocative findings, Dr. Chris Bail, Director of the Duke University Polarization Lab and author of Breaking the Social Media Prism (Princeton…
Online Conspiracies & Virtual Cults
Online Conspiracies & Virtual Cults Part 2: Celebrity Makes The World Go Flat Do we live in an age where online conspiracies and cults proliferate ever more frequently and powerfully? We continue to explore this question, focusing this episode on the tremendous growth of the flat earth movement in “Online Conspiracies & Virtual Cults, Part…
The Second Coming Turns 100
The Second Coming Turns 100 A Discussion of W.B. Yeats’ Classic Poem of Polarization with Pulitzer winner Paul Muldoon How does a century-old poem written in Ireland as European civil wars erupted in the aftermath of World War I still resonate as if written for our own partisan era? That is the central question The…
Front Lines of Partisanship
Front Lines of Partisanship With Dr. Charles Wheelan from Unite America In Episode 2, our guests include a former Republican speechwriter, a former centrist Democratic congressional candidate, a former Economist Magazine correspondent, a current Professor of Public Policy (Dartmouth College) and the founder of the non-partisan group, Unite America…. Lots of guests for one podcast?…