Gautam Mukunda on Picking Presidents

Leonard Lopate at Large on WBAI Radio in New York

(11/3/2022) In Picking Presidents, Gautam Mukunda sets his sights on presidential candidates, proposing an objective and tested method to assess whether they will succeed or fail if they win the White House. Combining political science, psychology, organizational behavior, and economics, Picking Presidents will enable every American to cast an informed vote. Picking Presidents provides analysis of filtered and unfiltered presidents alike, from failed haberdasher and skillful president Harry Truman, to the exceptionally well-qualified—and ultimately reviled—James Buchanan; from Andrew Johnson, who set civil rights back by a century, to Theodore Roosevelt, who evaded party opposition to transform American society. Join us when Gautam Mukunda examines Picking Presidents, which lays out a clear framework that anyone can use to judge a candidate and answer the all-important question in order to determine if they are they up to the job on this installment of Leonard Lopate at Large.