Episode 32: The Looming Crisis of Legitimacy

The great Nils Gilman of the Berggruen Institute and Noema joins Shadi and Damir to talk about why the upcoming elections feel existential, why our federal government feels increasingly illegitimate, and why Shadi's most recent piece in The Atlantic has annoyed so many people.

Reading List:

• "Human Rights and Neoliberalism," by Nils Gilman (LA Review of Books)

• "The Collapse of Racial Liberalism," by Nils Gilman (The American Interest)

• "The Democrats May Not Be Able to Concede," by Shadi Hamid (The Atlantic)