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The Glenn Show

John Wood Jr. – The Long Bridge Across the Partisan Divide

The Glenn Show

Glenn Loury

Politics, Society & Culture, News

4.82.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

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1:08 John’s work with Braver Angels

8:16 How Braver Angels gets its business done

13:09 Trying to bridge the partisan divide

20:27 Do some issues require taking sides?

27:37 Braver Angels's approach to the immigration issue

31:37 John: “Trump is more symptom than cause”

38:47 Are some political conflicts unavoidable?

41:38 John: “What we need in America is a ... spiritual transformation in our attitudes toward one another”

50:30 Braver Angels's American Hope Campaign

Recorded on July 25, 2025

Links and Readings

Glenn’s 2020 conversation with John

Braver Angels

A Braver Way podcast

Eliza Taylor Hawkins’s report, “Depolarizing During the Pandemic”

Braver Angels’s Trustworthy Elections Report

John’s speech before Braver Angels’s 2023 National Convention

Thomas Sowell’s book, Black Rednecks & White Liberals

Braver Angels’s American Hope Campaign



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0:46.2

This is Glenn Lowry.

0:47.2

You have tuned into the Glenn show.

0:48.4

I am with John Wood Jr.

0:50.6

And we're gonna have a conversation.

0:51.9

John Wood Jr. is National Ambassador

0:55.0

for the Braver Angels Project,

0:59.0

which he can describe a greater detail

1:01.0

and effort to facilitate dialogue across the partisan

1:04.6

divide amongst Americans in this time of such division. And they've just

1:10.6

had their annual convention and he's a national leader for the organization and we're going to talk about what the organization does and what not.

1:16.2

John has been a guest on the Glenn show in the past on several occasions where we've talked about this work, but it's been a while, and so it's good to catch up, John and old friend.

1:24.9

Welcome to the Glen Show, John.

1:27.2

Glen, it is a pleasure as always.

1:28.8

It's great to be back on with you.

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