How Do We Heal The Culture Wars? | Manu Meel

Protests, lock-ins, cancellations… the culture on university campuses is certainly fraught. Even worse, the assassination of Charlie Kirk has shown the tragic outcome of the growing political divide in America. So how do we heal it? How do we return to civil discourse?

This is the life's work of Manu Meel. Manu is the co-founder and CEO of BridgeUSA - a movement to help students and other young people engage in constructive dialogue and disagreement to improve the quality of politics and democracy, and in this conversation we hear his powerful journey from pre-med student to leading one of the most influential youth organizations in America.

Chapters :
00:00 - Intro
01:35 - What Is BridgeUSA?
07:19 - Understanding The Social Divide
19:03 - How do the Bridging Sessions work?
25:35 - Who Attends Bridge Sessions
33:24 - Incentive Structures to Maximize Collaboration
40:21 - Managing Bad Faith Actors
47:24 - Movement Building
52:23 - Turning Zero Sum into Positive
58:16 - Changes On Campuses Since Trump
01:02:35 - The Problem of the Ten Percent
01:06:33 - How to Redesign Social Media For Better?
01:18:03 - Bridging The Political Divide In Government
01:23:42 - Manu’s Mindset

Links :
♾️ BridgeUSA: https://bridgeusa.org
♾️ 2017 Berkeley protests: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Be...
♾️ Why Bother Bridging Differences in College, Anyway? https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/arti...
♾️ Atlantic Article on Cancel Culture: https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/a...
♾️ Manu's X: https://x.com/manumeel_?lang=en
♾️ Forbes Profile: https://www.forbes.com/profile/manu-m...
♾️ Jonathan Haidt's Book The Coddling of the American Mind:
https://www.amazon.com/Coddling-Ameri...

Credits:
♾️ Hosted by Liv Boeree
♾️ Edited and Mixed by Jackson Page
♾️ Produced by Luca de Vico

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