Arlie Hochschild is one of the most influential sociologists of the 20th and 21st centuries.

Show notes

Selected links

• Follow Arlie: Website
• Strangers In Their Own Land, by Arlie Hochschild
• Power, Politics, and People, by C. Wright Mills
• 'Ayn Rand and Modern Politics', article by David Sloan Wilson
• Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism, by Anne Case & Angus Deaton

Topics discussed

• Arlie's childhood spread across the world. 5:08
• How did C. Wright Mills influence Arlie? 8:34
• Was sociology an easy career decision for Arlie? 11:20
• When did Arlie decide she needed to write Strangers In Their Own Land? 12:54
• Why is the Tea Party strongest in the southern states? 16:47
• Why does the Tea Party love the atheist Ayn Rand? 25:14
• What are 'deep stories'? 34:55
• Taking the right's needs seriously. 42:07
• Trump's power as an orator. 55:04
• If the liberal elite failed to understand the white working class, how did a real estate magnate from Manhattan grock them so quickly? 1:03:10
• Trump won 10.1 million more votes in 2020 than in 2016. What does that say about America today? 1:04:57
• How can we learn to be more empathetic? 1:06:45