Christopher Freiman, Professor of General Business at West Virginia University, joins us to discuss several political ideas people think are just obviously true, but are they? We discuss selling votes, selling citizenship rights, billionaires, paying attention to politics, and a universal basic income.

James and Guy Discuss James' article, We Hate Each Other.

Link to James' article: https://nondoc.com/2023/08/21/we-hate-each-other-growing-incivility-undermines-the-values-of-our-democracy/

Perry Bacon - Democrats are Wrong about Republicans. Republicans are Wrong about Democrats: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/democrats-are-wrong-about-republicans-republicans-are-wrong-about-democrats/

Mernyk et al - Correcting Inaccurate Metaperceptions Reduces American's Support for Partisan Violence: https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2116851119

Iyengar, Sood, & Lelkes - Affect, not ideology: https://pcl.sites.stanford.edu/sites/g/files/sbiybj22066/files/media/file/iyengar-poq-affect-not-ideology.pdf

Lynn Vavreck - Are you wedded to your party?: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/31/upshot/are-you-married-to-your-party.html

Cass Sunstein - Partyism: https://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1543&context=uclf

Chris Wilson - How Liberal is Your Burger?: https://time.com/3572348/republican-democrat-stores/

Christopher Freiman - Why It's OK to Ignore Politics: https://www.amazon.com/Why-Its-OK-Ignore-Politics/dp/1138389005

The philosopher Amy Olberding joins us to discuss her book The Wrong of Rudeness and explains why some ancient Chinese philosophers had a much better handle on the importance of manners than we in the West do now.