Why Politics Are Our New Religion with Walter Russell Mead

Dan Romero, Antonio Garcia Martinez, and Erik Torenberg sit down with Professor Walter Russel Mead, an American academic, author, WSJ- and Tablet-contributor, and podcast host to discuss the shape of the next era after our information age. We're proudly sponsored by Vanta. Get $1000 off Vanta with https://www.vanta.com/zen

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RECOMMENDED PODCASTS:
Walter Russell Mead is one of our favorite guests on Moment of Zen, and he also has his own show called What Really Matters, a new podcast from Tablet Magazine (whose editor in chief, Alana Newhouse, was also on our show recently). Go to tabletmag.com/podcasts/what-really-matters or subscribe on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.

TIMESTAMPS:
(00:00) Episode Preview
(02:30) What is the American Crisis right now?
(07:00) New social model for the information age
(10:24) Sponsors: Vanta | NetSuite
(15:30) A(brahamic) bomb and revolutionary change in human society
(21:40) Has religion peaked or is the world getting more religious?
(27:00) Who believes in happy endings?
(29:30) Israel vs. American Jews
(32:00) Israeli-Palestinian conflict still matters, just not to Israelis in power
(35:40) Characterizing American foreign policy
(44:00) Nation states vs Network States h/t Balaji
(53:20) Defining the next era of Post Liberalism
(01:00:00) Populists, Plutocrats, Technocrats, and the Intelligentsia
(01:10:00) Israel’s future and what’s at stake
(01:23:00) Could California be Republican again?
(01:29:00) Golda Meir and female power
(01:32:50) Arafat and a jasmine-scented night in Gaza

SELECT LINKS: * For more go to https://momentofzen.substack.com/
What Really Matters podcast: https://www.tabletmag.com/podcasts/what-really-matters

Walter Russell Mead, The A(braham) Bomb: https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/abraham-bomb-via-meadia-walter-russell-mead

Antonio Garcia Martinez, Among the Protestors: https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/israel-middle-east/articles/among-the-protesters-antonio-garcia-martinez

Go back and listen to our Moment of Zen episodes with Tablet’s Editor in Chief Alana Newhouse (E29), Nadia Asparouhova (E26) and Liel Leibovitz (E23)

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