{"podcast":{"title":"The Dissenter","slug":"the-dissenter-1161217","podcast_index_feed_id":1161217,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/822ba20/podcast/rss","website_url":"https://www.thedissenter.net/","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/production/podcast_uploaded/1264936/1264936-1545566388129-6694711205af.jpg","author":"Ricardo Lopes","episode_count":1272,"summary":"My name is Ricardo Lopes, and I’m from Portugal. Thank you for visiting my podcast. Over the past few years, I have conducted and released more than 900 interviews and talks with experts and academics from a variety of areas and disciplines, ranging from the Arts and Philosophy to the Social Sciences and Biology. You will certainly find a subject of your interest covered here. New interviews are released on Mondays, Thursdays, and Fridays.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-14T08:18:50.276160+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-dissenter-1161217"},"episode":{"title":"#1259 Sarah Stein Lubrano: Why Political Debate Does Not Work","slug":"1259-sarah-stein-lubrano-why-political-debate-does-not-work","published_at":"2026-05-28T18:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-dissenter-1161217/1259-sarah-stein-lubrano-why-political-debate-does-not-work","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-dissenter-1161217","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thedissenter/episodes/1259-Sarah-Stein-Lubrano-Why-Political-Debate-Does-Not-Work-e3jhq36","audio_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/822ba20/podcast/play/120170022/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-4-18%2Ff113da4a-9192-e815-efe0-fad1f794bd62.m4a","summary":"******Support the channel****** Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thedissenter PayPal: paypal.me/thedissenter PayPal Subscription 1 Dollar: https://tinyurl.com/yb3acuuy PayPal Subscription 3 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ybn6bg9l PayPal Subscription 5 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ycmr9gpz PayPal Subscription 10 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/y9r3fc9m PayPal Subscription 20 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/y95uvkao ******Follow me on****** Website: https://www.thedissenter.net/ The Dissenter Goodreads list: https://shorturl.at/7BMoB Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thedissenteryt/ Twitter: https://x.com/TheDissenterYT This show is sponsored by Enlites, Learning & Development done differently. Check the website here: http://enlites.com/ Dr. Sarah Stein Lubrano is a writer, content strategist, and researcher. Her writing focuses on social and political life and its relationship to psychology. She is also Head of Research for The Future Narratives Lab, where their work focuses on narratives about social and political change. She is the author of Don't Talk About Politics: How to Change 21st-Century Minds. In this episode, we talk about Don't Talk About Politics. We discuss why political debates do not change people’s minds, and why the “marketplace of ideas” does not work. We talk about how people really change their political ideas, with a focus on their material conditions, their social relationships, and their actions. We talk about political polarization, andwhat has driven the rise in social atrophy over the past 15 years. We discuss the role of social media, and solutions to how we interact with other people for us to be able to reason better about politics. Finally, we talk about whether we can replace the liberal ideal of the “marketplace of ideas”. -- A HUGE THANK Y…","meta_description":"******Support the channel****** Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thedissenter PayPal: paypal.me/thedissenter PayPal Subscription 1 Dollar: https://tinyurl…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2969,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-dissenter-1161217/episodes/1259-sarah-stein-lubrano-why-political-debate-does-not-work/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-dissenter-1161217/1259-sarah-stein-lubrano-why-political-debate-does-not-work.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}