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Published · transcript-backedArthur Brooks: belief
1 Apr 2026 Conversations with Tyler Arthur Brooks on Reinvention, Religion, and the Science of Happiness
“I think that there’s a difference in the ability of different populations to assimilate and different cultures in their willingness and ability to assimilate new people.”
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- 1 Apr 2026
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…Say you look at Northern England, some parts of which are pretty intensely Islamic. Has it gone as well? Have you updated your views? No. I think that there’s a difference in the ability of different populations to assimilate and different cultures in their willingness and ability to assimilate new people. I think we need proper public policies that help people to assimilate and insist that they do so. There’s been greater, lesser degrees of success around the world. I think it’s fair to say what we call the right wing in America, it’s become much, much more Trumpy. Does this shift you to the left or make you question what the right wing was to begin with, or do you just feel lost and confused, or do you say, that’s great, I’m more Trumpy, too? How have you dealt with that emotionally and intellectually?…
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