Toward The Turning When Culture And Psychology Dance From Scott Gibbs

Arroe Collins Like It's Live · Nov 3, 2026 · 32m · transcript

Gibbs, a psychotherapist who works with conflict in relationships and across groups, argues that "fighting" over practical problems undermines our ability to solve them. That failure intensifies the fight, deepens distrust, and fuels polarized populism on both the right and the left. In his words, fighting creates populism, which feeds more fighting.Take affordability. A free market-oriented right gives greater weight to individual choice, property rights, and rewards for enterprise. A universalist left gives greater weight to equality, access to necessities, and collective responsibility…