The end of world order as we know it

Hogging seats on a crowded train, not saying excuse me, watching videos on your phone with no headphones in. Sometimes it feels like we don't know how to act anymore. What we have been seeing, increasingly, is people breaking rules. Why should I play by the rules if nobody else is going to do that for me? This week on Explain It to Me, how to mind your manners.

New episodes Sundays wherever you get your podcasts. My guest today is my friend and Vox colleague Zach Beecha. Zach covers a lot of things. He covers uh ideology, particularly the the political right, both here and abroad, and just sort of reports on the state of democracy uh around the world.

And he's also one of the most reliable guests in the history of this show. He's the only person, I think, who I can count on to not forget to turn on his recorder and to not slap his microphone right off the mount mid-sentence disrupting the recording. Zach, how would you describe what you do? Well, I will neither confirm nor deny that any of those things have happened during during recordings that we've done, Sean, and I certainly have never forgotten to bring a waterclass with me. But yeah, look, I describe my job uh in sort of two parts.

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