#59 Classic episode - Cass Sunstein on how change happens, and why it's so often abrupt & unpredictable

<p><b>Rebroadcast: this episode was originally released in June 2019.</b><br></p><p> It can often feel hopeless to be an activist seeking social change on an obscure issue where most people seem opposed or at best indifferent to you. But according to a new book by Professor Cass Sunstein, they shouldn't despair. Large social changes are often abrupt and unexpected, arising in an environment of seeming public opposition.</p><p> The Communist Revolution in Russia spread so swiftly it confounded even Lenin. Seventy years later the Soviet Union collapsed just as quickly and unpredictably.</p><p> In the...