Local Authors Decry Rise of Fundamentalist Thought in US
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The co-authors of the new book “Minds Wide Shut” join us in discussion.
We discuss the new book “Minds Wide Shut: How the New Fundamentalisms Divide Us” with co-authors Morton Schapiro, the president of Northwestern University who is also a professor of economics, and Gary Saul Morson, professor of the arts and humanities and Slavic languages at Northwestern University.
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Local Authors Decry Rise of Fundamentalist Thought in US
Clip: 5/17/2021 | 8m 17sVideo has Closed Captions
We discuss the new book “Minds Wide Shut: How the New Fundamentalisms Divide Us” with co-authors Morton Schapiro, the president of Northwestern University who is also a professor of economics, and Gary Saul Morson, professor of the arts and humanities and Slavic languages at Northwestern University.
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