Lean Out with Tara Henley
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George Packer on Activism and Bad Art
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George Packer on Activism and Bad Art

My conversation with the acclaimed American writer
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In times of crisis, artists often feel the need to take a stand, to engage in activism. But my guest on today’s program says we should recognize that art and politics have very different agendas. “These are different realms,” he writes, “and the values of one can be inhospitable — even deadly — to the values of the other.”

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George Packer is a staff writer at The Atlantic, and the author of ten books. His latest essay is “Why Activism Leads To So Much Bad Writing.”

George Packer is my guest, today on Lean Out.

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