Bestselling author Arthur Brooks is our guest for the 126th episode.

He has served as President of the American Enterprise Institute for the past ten years and will leave that post in June.

His new book is “Love Your Enemies: How Decent People Can Save America from our Culture of Contempt”.

In this conversation, we discuss whether ‘loving your enemies’ comes naturally, whether tribalism is the cause of contempt rising, whether the profit motive in media companies drives us further apart, what role Twitter is playing in this, how capitalism and socialism view the concept of ‘earned success’, whether the conservative movement still values ideas, how he views his tenure at AEI and what he has planned for his next chapter.