How to Restore Your Faith in Democracy

To Taylor’s way of thinking, the problem with this election wasn’t that it was divisive but that, for too many people, it felt meaningless.Illustration by Rebecca Clarke Two weeks ago—when the election of Donald Trump was still, to many people, an almost comedic idea—Charles Taylor, the Canadian philosopher, visited the Social Science Research Council, in Brooklyn, to talk about the fate of democr

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“In dark times, it’s tempting to give up on politics. The philosopher Charles Taylor explains why we shouldn’t. | his three-point program for engaging with one’s political opponents—“Try to listen; find out what’s troubling them; stop condemning””