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Hello and welcome to the Bullard Podcast. I'm your host, Tim Miller. It's Wednesday. So if you're looking for political hot takes on Mayor Pete's voyage into the manosphere, Scotty Besson's damage control, Trump's approval numbers, head on over to the Next Level Podcast with Sarah JVL and I. That's going to come out later this evening. It comes out on Wednesday evenings. But on this show...
We're getting a little sociological and ecclesiastical and welcoming senior fellow in governance studies at the Brookings Institution, a contributing writer at The Atlantic. His latest book is Cross Purpose, Christianity's Broken Bargain with Democracy. It's Jonathan Rauch. Hey, Jonathan. Hi, happy to be here. Welcome, welcome. I guess you were on the spot with Charlie a while back.
I was trying to check. I went and re-listened to that this morning. So it's a welcome back, not a welcome. Appreciate you. And I want to get to the new book in a bit, I promise. But I feel like I have to pick your brain about what's happening in D.C. first. You wrote a column for years called, what's called Social Studies. Is that right? Yeah.
On kind of how government and society interact and function and So looking at the first three months of this administration, do you ever imagine the social studies will look anything like this?
No, no. You know, I'm in the same boat a lot of people are. I'm astonished, bewildered, disoriented, dismayed, distressed, distracted, sometimes depressed. You know, everything that begins with a D. In the dumps. Is what I am. We're seeing everyday things that were unimaginable in the America that I grew up in, or at least thought I grew up in. So there's that. And you know, this is on purpose.
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