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Don't Talk About Politics
- Author
- Sarah Stein Lubrano
- Narrator
- Sarah Stein Lubrano
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Publish Date
- 15 May 2025
- Run Time
- 7 hours 19 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
Democracy is dying because we are clinging to a dangerous and outdated myth: talking about politics can change people’s minds. It doesn’t.
This provocative debut from a bold new voice combines a fascinating range of research to show us the psychological and sociological factors that really shape our politics.
Drawing from ancient philosophy to modern neuroscience and social science, Dr Sarah Stein Lubrano reveals the surprising truth about how people think and behave politically. From friendship to community organizing and social infrastructure, she explores the actions that actually do change minds.
In a world where politics keeps getting more irrational, dishonest, violent and chaotic, it’s getting much harder to reach people with words alone. So people who really care about democracy must ask: how can we stop arguing and do the deep work to build stronger foundations for political life, and a better world for us all?
Critics Review
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This book changed the way I talk about politics.
Grace Blakeley, author of Vulture Capitalism
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A very timely book indeed, full of wise, hopeful, sometimes sad, sometimes funny truths, about how we have reached the place we are in. It asks to put aside so much of what we think we know in the name of a more realistic assessment of how politics, language, communities and beliefs really work. Eye opening and necessary.
Alain de Botton, author of The Consolations of Philosophy and Essays in Love
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A timely and hopeful critique of today’s political culture, Sarah Stein Lubrano challenges us to rethink politics – placing interpersonal activism and community-building above performative outrage.
Alice Cappelle, author of Collapse Feminism: The Online Battle for Feminism's Future
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A rare combination of cognitive science and critical theory... Sarah Stein Lubrano is an exceptionally erudite and thoughtful veteran activist. A skillful, meticulous dismantling of debate culture.
Sophie Lewis, author of Abolish the Family and Enemy Feminisms
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[A] thought-provoking debut work.
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Details
- Author
- Sarah Stein Lubrano
- Narrator
- Sarah Stein Lubrano
- Duration
- 7 hours 19 minutes
- Release Date
- 15 May 2025
- ISBN
- 9781399413961
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Genre
- Social and political philosophy, Political structure and processes, Political science and theory
Synopsis
Bloomsbury presents Don't Talk About Politics: How to Change 21st-Century Minds, written and read by Sarah Stein LubranoDemocracy is dying because we are clinging to a dangerous and outdated myth: talking about politics can change people’s minds. It doesn’t.This provocative debut from a bold new voice combines a fascinating range of research to show us the psychological and sociological factors that really shape our politics.Drawing from ancient philosophy to modern neuroscience and social science, Dr Sarah Stein Lubrano reveals the surprising truth about how people think and behave politically. From friendship to community organizing and social infrastructure, she explores the actions that actually do change minds.In a world where politics keeps getting more irrational, dishonest, violent and chaotic, it’s getting much harder to reach people with words alone. So people who really care about democracy must ask: how can we stop arguing and do the deep work to build stronger foundations for political life, and a better world for us all?
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