8. Conversation with Dr. Jonathan Weiler

Would you rather drive a Prius or a pickup? The answer reveals more than you think…

Jonathan Weiler is a Professor of Global Studies at The University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill. In 2018, Jonathan and his colleague Marc Hetherington published an outstanding and insightful book, Prius or Pickup?: How the Answers to Four Simple Questions Explain America’s Great Divide, about how the polarization of our politics is related to fixed and fluid world views. If you are trying to process and understand the last five years their book is the place to start.

In this conversation Jonathan and I talk politics, authoritarianism, the NCAA, Michael Jordan, and why Patrick Ewing is his all-time favorite Knick.

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