The Long Game Podcast
1) My conversation with Jonathan Rauch about his new book "Cross Purposes"
Jonathan Rauch is an important voice for our time. He was for free speech and free thought way before it was cool. In 1993, he published a book called Kindly Inquisitors: The New Attacks on Free Thoug...Show More
2) Eliza Griswold's new book Circle of Hope is a cautionary tale about placing too much hope in your church
Eliza Griswold's new book Circle of Hope: A Reckoning with Love, Power, and Justice in an American Church is about a church in Philadelphia that was started by a couple who became dramatic converts to...Show More
3) Major Garrett talks about Neil Postman's book "Amusing Ourselves to Death"
Major Garrett is chief Washington correspondent for CBS News, and as he told me in our conversation, he is an "accidental television journalist" who "never imagined" working in TV and "never wanted it...Show More
Major Garrett talks about Neil Postman's book "Amusing Ourselves to Death"
59:32 | Aug 23rd, 2024
4) Moderates Keep Fighting & Don't Look for the Easy Way Out, with Aurelian Craiutu
Aurelian Craiutu is the author of Why Not Moderation? Letters to Young Radicals. Craiutu is the chair of Indiana University's political science department. He is reclaiming a word and idea — moderatio...Show More
Moderates Keep Fighting & Don't Look for the Easy Way Out, with Aurelian Craiutu
40:27 | Jul 30th, 2024
5) Yuval Levin's "American Covenant" is a blueprint for peace-making and effective governance
It is the 80th anniversary of D-Day. I just finished watching the ceremony in France, where they honored WWII vets who still live, and those who never came home. It was incredibly moving. But we can...Show More
6) Higher ed has lost sight of mission and purpose, John Inazu says
John Inazu's new book is Learning to Disagree: The Surprising Path to Navigating Differences with Empathy and Respect. John teaches on criminal law, law and religion and the First Amendment at Washing...Show More
7) We Are Not Powerless: American Politics is "Entirely Fixable" says Nick Troiano in his new book "The Primary Solution"
We keep looking at our broken political system — the politicians who show up on our TV's and our phones, the lawmakers who end up in Congress, and the general lack of solutions to our biggest problems...Show More
8) What is a Christian politics? Michael Wear's new book argues it's mostly about who we are
Break the system. Â That's what one New Hampshire voter, a 58-year old retired Army officer, said he wants the president to do, in an interview with Politico Magazine. Â It's only the most obvious exa...Show More
9) David Leonhardt's book joins a chorus of warnings for the Democrats
The 1950's and 60's were an age of widely shared prosperity in the U.S. — across class and economic lines — that have never quite returned. Things were improving for all parts of society during the po...Show More
10) Tim Alberta's new book portrays a tug of war for the soul of American Christianity
Tim Alberta's new book: The Kingdom, The Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals In An Age of Extremism, is a sobering look at the results in history when a religious movement morphs into a politi...Show More
Tim Alberta's new book portrays a tug of war for the soul of American Christianity
1:05:50 | Dec 1st, 2023