I’m delighted to say that my guest for this episode is Cass Sunstein, a professor at Harvard Law School and one of America’s pre-eminent legal scholars. Cass has been an adviser to President Obama and President Biden. He’s also the author or co-author of numerous excellent books on a staggering variety of topics, from behavioural economics to conspiracy theories to fame to climate justice and more.This conversation was sparked by his latest book, On Liberalism, a thought-provoking re-examination of what it means to be a political liberal in an age when liberalism is under attack. Cass is great at making connections between politics and culture, so I naturally wanted to talk to him about the Beatles, and whether they can be said to embody a liberal outlook on life. We start off by talking about his first love, Bob Dylan.

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