Christopher Beem's guest appearances

Christopher Beem

Elucidations

The Political Theory Review

Background Briefing with Ian Masters

Future Hindsight

Yuval Levin

Samuel Fleischacker

John Scott

Christian B. Miller

Katrin Flikschuh

Michael Sandel

Jeremy Bailey

Nicholas Tampio

Michael Walzer

David James

Rob Goodman

Adom Getachew

Steven Smith

Peter Steinberger

Wendy Brown

OwlTail

This episode, Matt talks to Christopher Beem (Penn State University) about how we can cultivate those skills that conduce to having a functioning democracy. His book on the topic, The Seven Democratic Virtues, is out now from Penn State University Press.The storming of the US Capitol Building in 2021 was an eyebrow-raising event, to say the least. It prompted historians, political scientists, and political philosophers to ask whether deep down, everything was going okay with our democratic system. Was this event some kind of sign that the voting process was under unusual strain? Was it time to start thinking about measures we can take to try to support and maintain it?Our guest says yes: that time is upon us. In light of evidence from evolutionary psychology that natural selection imbued us all with an instinct for tribalism, he argues that there are pretty strong causal forces working to congeal us into increasingly disjoint political camps. If we don’t do anything about it, members of these communities may one day no longer be willing to vote in the same elections. But what are we supposed to do about it? Although no one simple trick is likely to work, Beem argues that there are personal moral virtues that we can all work on developing. Democracy doesn’t just function by default; we have to actively work on ourselves in order to make it function. It’s not like we wave a magic wand, follow a couple simple steps and then we’re “done”. Rather, it’s always going to be an ongoing process to keep this crazy thing afloat.Tune in to hear Christopher Beem’s thoughts about what these virtues are and how exemplifying them can get our democracy back into whack! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This episode, Matt talks to <a href="https://polisci.la.psu.edu/people/cxb518/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Christopher Beem</a> (Penn State University) about how we can cultivate those skills that conduce to having a functioning democracy. His book on the topic, <a href="https://www.psupress.org/books/titles/978-0-271-09394-9.html" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">The Seven Democratic Virtues</a>, is out now from Penn State University Press.The storming of the US Capitol Building in 2021 was an eyebrow-raising event, to say the least. It prompted historians, political scientists, and political philosophers to ask whether deep down, everything was going okay with our democratic system. Was this event some kind of sign that the voting process was under unusual strain? Was it time to start thinking about measures we can take to try to support and maintain it?Our guest says yes: that time is upon us. In light of evidence from evolutionary psychology that natural selection imbued us all with an instinct for tribalism, he argues that there are pretty strong causal forces working to congeal us into increasingly disjoint political camps. If we don’t do anything about it, members of these communities may one day no longer be willing to vote in the same elections. But what are we supposed to do about it? Although no one simple trick is likely to work, Beem argues that there are personal moral virtues that we can all work on developing. Democracy doesn’t just function by default; we have to actively work on ourselves in order to make it function. It’s not like we wave a magic wand, follow a couple simple steps and then we’re “done”. Rather, it’s always going to be an ongoing process to keep this crazy thing afloat.Tune in to hear Christopher Beem’s thoughts about what these virtues are and how exemplifying them can get our democracy back into whack! Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

Episode 144: Christopher Beem discusses democratic virtues

Thursday, September 1st, 2022   Christopher Beem is Managing Director of the McCourtney Institute for Democracy, co-host of the Democracy Works podcast, and the author of The Seven Democratic Virtues: What You Can Do to Overcome Tribalism and Save Our Democracy. We discuss vices and virtues in the context of democratic thinking, democratic acting, and democratic belief.   American democracy is at a crisis point. To fix our politics, we have to change our culture first. We can all take part in creating a culture that cultivates democratic virtues. Humility, for example, recognizes that all of us are biased and that we will disagree. In fact, anger is an essential emotion in democracy. Hatred, however, is disastrous. When we hate, we cannot operate as a democracy.    Follow Chris on Twitter:  https://twitter.com/cbeem1    Follow Mila on Twitter:  https://twitter.com/milaatmos    Follow Future Hindsight on Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/futurehindsightpod/   Love Future Hindsight? Take our Listener Survey!   http://survey.podtrac.com/start-survey.aspx?pubid=6tI0Zi1e78vq&amp;ver=standard    Want to support the show and get it early?  https://patreon.com/futurehindsight    Check out the Future Hindsight website!  www.futurehindsight.com     Credits:  Host: Mila Atmos  Guest: Christopher Beem Executive Producer: Mila Atmos Producers: Zack Travis and Sara Burningham

Thursday, September 1st, 2022 Christopher Beem is Managing Director of the McCourtney Institute for Democracy, co-host of the Democracy Works podcast, and the author of The Seven Democratic Virtues: What You Can Do to Overcome Tribalism and Save Our Democracy. We discuss vices and virtues in the context of democratic thinking, democratic acting, and democratic belief. American democracy is at a crisis point. To fix our politics, we have to change our culture first. We can all take part in creating a culture that cultivates democratic virtues. Humility, for example, recognizes that all of us are biased and that we will disagree. In fact, anger is an essential emotion in democracy. Hatred, however, is disastrous. When we hate, we cannot operate as a democracy.    Follow Chris on Twitter:  <a href="https://twitter.com/cbeem1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/cbeem1</a>   Follow Mila on Twitter:  <a href="https://twitter.com/milaatmos" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/milaatmos</a>   Follow Future Hindsight on Instagram:  <a href="https://www.instagram.com/futurehindsightpod/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.instagram.com/futurehindsightpod/</a>   Love Future Hindsight? Take our Listener Survey!  <a href="http://survey.podtrac.com/start-survey.aspx?pubid=6tI0Zi1e78vq&amp;ver=standard" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> http://survey.podtrac.com/start-survey.aspx?pubid=6tI0Zi1e78vq&amp;ver=standard</a>   Want to support the show and get it early?  <a href="https://patreon.com/futurehindsight" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://patreon.com/futurehindsight</a>   Check out the Future Hindsight website!  <a href="http://www.futurehindsight.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.futurehindsight.com</a>   Credits:  Host: Mila Atmos  Guest: Christopher Beem Executive Producer: Mila Atmos Producers: Zack Travis and Sara Burningham

Democratic Thinking and Acting: Christopher Beem

A conversation with Christopher Beem about his recent book Democratic Humility: Reinhold Niebuhr, Neuroscience, and America's Political Crisis (Lexington Press).

Christopher Beem - Democratic Humility