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UnavailableGist: The Societal Optimist
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Gist: The Societal Optimist

FromSlate Daily Feed


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Gist: The Societal Optimist

FromSlate Daily Feed

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Length:
33 minutes
Released:
Apr 3, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

On The Gist, calming down about Trump’s bombast. In the interview, Nicholas Christakis is here to discuss his new book Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society, how he studied the progression of goodness throughout human history, the way healthy communities evolve, and why shipwrecks were so important to his research. In the Spiel, the problem with microaggressions.
Released:
Apr 3, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode

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