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Finding a Common Goal

Charles Koch and Brian Hooks joined Sarah and David to discuss their new book, Believe ...

Charles Koch and Brian Hooks joined Sarah and David to discuss their new book, Believe in People: Bottom-Up Solutions for a Top-Down World, which is about social entrepreneurship, the principles of human progress, and empowering people to discover their gifts. On today’s show, Koch and Hooks explain how finding common ground with people across the ideological spectrum has helped reorient their approach to public policy reform as it relates to the criminal justice system, education, and more.

Show Notes:

Believe in People: Bottom-Up Solutions for a Top-Down World by Charles G. Koch and Brian Hooks.

After Life: My Journey from Incarceration to Freedom by Alice Marie Johnson with Nancy French.

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Sarah Isgur is a senior editor at The Dispatch and is based in northern Virginia. Prior to joining the company in 2019, she had worked in every branch of the federal government and on three presidential campaigns. When Sarah is not hosting podcasts or writing newsletters, she’s probably sending uplifting stories about spiders to Jonah, who only pretends to love all animals.

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