Heather Cox Richardson

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126 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 17 Jul

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What A Day · Amending The Constitution For The 21st Century With Heather Cox Richardson · 17 Jul 2026 podcast

And one of the things that we're seeing right now voice-verified

is a number of people backing away from this false image and saying, well, wait a minute here. voice-verified

You know, actually, I do like the idea of a rules-based international order if it means that we're not going to be voice-verified

trying to take over Greenland and going to be able to support world trade. voice-verified

So I think that this idea we're divided is a product of the last 40 years of American politics more than it's a product of where people really are. voice-verified

Now, in terms of people's voices being heard, you know, one of the things about history is that you forget how much of it is lost to us. voice-verified

So it might sound like people didn't have voices in the past, but a lot of that is because those voices weren't handed forward. voice-verified

They weren't preserved for many reasons. voice-verified

And so I think when you say we're hearing all kinds of voices now that we wouldn't have heard in the past, I'm not entirely sure that's the case. voice-verified

And I would make the argument that if you believe in the Enlightenment, you believe in the idea of people marshalling arguments based in reality, based in facts, based in things that we can actually understand. voice-verified

prove that more voices is better. voice-verified

I kind of think of it as being crowdsourcing because you hear things you wouldn't necessarily do otherwise. voice-verified

So I'm actually really keen on the idea of hearing the voices of, you know, a kid in an African country who maybe wouldn't have been heard in the past and now can say, wait a minute, I think if we handled energy this way, it might be more efficient. voice-verified

And you can take that idea into a bigger realm where people can say, yeah, that seems like a pretty good idea. voice-verified

So it's funny you say people are cynical now. voice-verified

I would have said people were really cynical over the past 30 years, really. voice-verified

You know, if you are under 55, I think, and that's a bit of an arbitrary cutoff, I think you don't remember a time when American democracy worked. voice-verified

That's never to say it was perfect. voice-verified

It has never been perfect, which is part of the whole idea of it. voice-verified

It's always a work in progress. voice-verified

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