Paul Hobby joins Eric Jorgenson to talk about Glorious Tension: Rediscovering Our Sacred Middle Ground in an Age of Extremism — a book that began as "cathartic COVID era scribblings" and grew into what Eric calls an act of public service. Paul tells the story of finding his grandmother's 1938 speech "in the bowels of the internet" — a speech that gave him chills because you could swap the names and places for today's — and how sophisticated friends convinced him the scribblings were a book. He explains why your brain is built for rabbit holes, the difference between a tribe and a cult, why he keeps a list on his iPhone of things he's been dead wrong about, and his grandmother's rule to always phrase a criticism as a question.

Along the way: the speaking invitations the book has opened up, the reader email that arrived out of nowhere the morning of the recording, and why Scribe's fact-checking was rigorous "almost to the point of irritation" — with the result that nobody has ever caught a wrong quote or fact in the book.

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