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Sustaining Democracy: What We Owe to the Other Side

National Institute for Civil Discourse

“This podcast is a conversation between NICD’s Dr. Timothy Shaffer and Dr. Robert B. Talisse Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University. Dr. Talisse highlights the challenge of what it means to wrestle with the “”democrat’s dilemma:”” the tension between the moral requirement to recognize the equality of political opponents and the moral directive to pursue and promote political justice.”

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