On this week’s The Book Club, we discuss the book How Minds Change by David McRaney, a self-described psychology nerd who writes the blog youarenotsosmart.com.
How Minds Change, explores the limits of reasoning, the power of groupthink, and the effects of deep canvassing. Told with McRaney’s trademark sense of humor, compassion, and scientific curiosity, it’s an eye-opening journey among cult members, conspiracy theorists, and political activists, from Westboro Baptist Church picketers to LGBTQ campaigners in California—that ultimately challenges us to question our own motives and beliefs. In an age of dangerous conspiratorial thinking, can we rise to the occasion with empathy?
This interview originally aired on July 17, 2022.