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Waiting in Line for the American Dream with Arlie Hochschild
In today’s episode I’m speaking with sociologist Arlie Russell Hochschild, Professor Emerita at UC Berkeley. Her 2016 book Strangers in Their Own Land (The New Press) became influential in the wake of Donald Trump’s election, largely because she crossed what she calls the empathy wall to understand people on the other side of America’s political divide.
Her new book – Stolen Pride: Loss, Shame, and the Rise of the Right (The New Press 2024) – draws on fresh field-work in Appalachian coal country. Hochschild asks what happens when communities lose jobs, pride, and dignity—and who steps in to…
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