Why Christianity Needs to Help Save Democracy (with Jonathan Rauch)

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We'd love to hear from you. Today is March 24, 2025, and my guest is author Jonathan Rausch of the Brookings Institution. This is Jonathan's third appearance on the program. He was last year in August of 2021 talking about the constitution of knowledge. His latest book, and the topic of today's conversation, is Cross Purposes, Christianity's Broken Bargain with Democracy.

Jonathan, welcome back to Econ Talk. I am always glad to see you, Russ. Well, let's start with the chutzpah of this book, if we might. I don't uh think you use that word explicitly, but you could have. Why is this a book of why is this a book of chutzpah?

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