Uncharted Episode 18: Assholes: A theory of Donald Trump

When Aaron James sat down to write a popular philosophy book about assholes, he didn't anticipate the candidacy — then the presidency — of Donald Trump. But then James found he had the perfect framework to explain the seemingly inexplicable. In October 2016, before the November election, James, a professor of philosophy at the University of California Irvine, sat down with writer Dan Schifrin at the Uncharted Festival of Ideas in Berkeley to talk about his book, Assholes: A Theory of Donald Trump , and attempt to explains the now President's behavior.

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Uncharted Episode 18: Assholes: A theory of Donald Trump is an episode from Berkeleyside Podcast by Berkeleyside.

This episode is 39:16 long.

This episode was published on Jul 6, 2017.

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