Building Trust in a Pluralistic Society: Ben Klutsey talks to Kevin Vallier

Discourse Magazine Podcast

In this 9th episode on our series on liberalism, Ben Klutsey, the director of academic outreach at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, speaks with Kevin Vallier about the connections between declining social and political trust as well as possible solutions for rebuilding faith in our neighbors and establishing a broad-based civic friendship. Vallier is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Bowling Green State University. His interests lie primarily in philosophy, politics, and economics (PPE), ethics, and the philosophy of religion. He is the author of Liberal Politics and Public Faith: Beyond Separation, Must Politics Be War? Restoring Our Trust in the Open Society, and Trust in a Polarized Age.

Resources mentioned

Kevin Vallier, Liberal Politics and Public Faith: Beyond Separation, https://www.kevinvallier.com/books/liberal-politics-and-public-faith/

Kevin Vallier, Must Politics Be War? Restoring Our Trust in the Open Society, https://www.kevinvallier.com/reconciled/must-politics-be-war-redux-500-words/

Kevin Vallier, Trust in a Polarized Age, https://www.kevinvallier.com/books/trust-in-a-polarized-age/

Kevin Vallier, Reconciled Blog Post, https://www.kevinvallier.com/reconciled/new-finding-us-social-trust-has-fallen-23-points-since-1964/

Robert Talisse, Discourse Interview, https://www.discoursemagazine.com/politics/2020/11/06/too-much-of-a-good-thing/

Robert Talisse, Overdoing Democracy, https://global.oup.com/academic/product/overdoing-democracy-9780190924195?cc=us&lang=en&m

Martin Gurri, Revolt of the Public, https://www.amazon.com/Revolt-Public-Crisis-Authority-Millennium/dp/1732265143

Philip Tetlock Superforcasting: The Art and Science of Prediction, https://www.amazon.com/Superforecasting-Science-Prediction-Philip-Tetlock/dp/0804136718