A conversation with Brené Brown

On the emotional inner life of an age of democratic crisis

My life is conversations. But every now and then, I get to have a very special one.

I will not forget this conversation with Brené Brown, the brilliant researcher and social work scholar and podcaster.

It’s about persuasion, the unsung role of emotion in politics, the roiling sentiments just below the surface of our democratic decay, and how America can b…