Don't Talk About Politics
How to Change 21st-Century Minds
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Don't Talk About Politics
Narrated by:
Sarah Stein Lubrano
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Narrated by:
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Sarah Stein Lubrano
Democracy is dying because we are clinging to a dangerous and outdated myth: talking about politics can change people’s minds.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?©2025 Sarah Stein Lubrano (P)2025 Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Critic Reviews
This book changed the way I talk about politics.
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.
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.
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.
[A] thought-provoking debut work.
Social networks as a foundation for a well-functioning and egalitarian democracy
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She writes with an assurance of someone completing their tenth major work, not their first. The world is being introduced to an important new voice writing on a topic that may be the defining fracture point of the early 21st century: how to come together around a shared concept of the common good.
A staggeringly brilliant debut
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