Richard V Reeves

Me, on Dr Phil:

✂️ "A positive script for masculinity that is not anti-women" 29 seconds · Clipped by Richard Reeves · Original video "Dr. Phil The Demise of Guys | Andrew Tate | January 27, 2023 (Full Episode) 1080p" by House Of Enter...

This marks the start of my campaign to get more men into K-12 teaching, currently just 24% male down from 33% in the 1980s. (For supporting policy proposals, see Of Boys and Men https://buff.ly/3C6Pv7e )

"The main reason we find it difficult to think critically about democracy is that it requires us to think critically about ourselves." That's the view of my guest today, Robert Tracy McKenzie, a historian at Wheaton College. In his recent book We the Fallen People: The Founders and the Future of American Democracy , he argues that Americans - and American Christians in particular have forgotten what the framers always knew: that human beings are flawed, broken, inclined towards sin - in other words, fallen. He contrasts this view of fallen humanity with what he calls the "democratic gospel", based on the "comforting fiction that we are naturally good". In this conversation we discuss the development of the idea that "America is great because America is good" (which Tocqueville never actually said); argue about the extent to which democracy is intrinsically good, or mostly good as means to other ends; discuss the balance between two different Christian anthropologies, one positive one negative; the use and misuse of history by political partisans; and the need for religious people, in particular, to take history more seriously. He's an interesting thinker, a terrific writer and this was a fun conversation.
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Why is Federalist 10 so important to the success of diverse democracies? The best person to answer that question is.... . Listen to our podcast dialogue:
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Yascha Mounk on race, democracy and liberal patriotism Listen to this episode from Dialogues with Richard Reeves on Spotify. Diverse democracies are new, wonderful, but potentially fragile: that's the claim, the promise and the warning from my guest today, Yascha Mounk. Yascha wears many hats. He is a Professor at Johns Hopkins, the Founder of Persuasio...