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episode 583: 583. Are We Living Through the Most Revolutionary Period in History?
Fareed Zakaria says yes. But it’s not just political revolution — it’s economic, technological, even emotional. He doesn’t offer easy solutions but he does offer some hope.
- SOURCES:
- Fareed Zakaria, journalist and author.
- RESOURCES:
- Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present, by Fareed Zakaria (2024).
- "The Ultimate Election Year: All the Elections Around the World in 2024," by Koh Ewe (TIME, 2023).
- "The Tea Party and the Remaking of Republican Conservatism," by Vanessa Williamson, Theda Skocpol, and John Coggin (Perspectives on Politics, 2011).
- The Post-American World, by Fareed Zakaria (2008).
- The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad, by Fareed Zakaria (2003).
- EXTRAS:
- "Is the U.S. Really Less Corrupt Than China?" by Freakonomics Radio (2021).