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Sarah Stein Lubrano is spokesperson and researcher at Alain de Botton’s The School of Life, where she gives monthly live talks, radio and podcast interviews, and television appearances discussing big ideas, from the rise of the Protestant work ethic to the problem of living with self-hatred. Sarah is a frequent talking head on outlets like The Times Radio, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and BBC Radio 4, including Women’s Hour and The Moral Maze. In 2022 she appeared as a regular guest on Derren Brown’s Audible podcast, “Bootcamp for Life”, speaking about the psychological challenges of modern life. Prior to this, she was the Head of Content at the School of Life for many years. Sarah’s research on politics, communication and activism began at Harvard (where she won an award for being in the top ten percent of undergraduate research theses), Cambridge University (where her dissertation obtained a distinction) and Oxford University (where she is currently in the last year of her DPhil/PhD programme. Her academic work focuses on cognitive dissonance, a psychological phenomenon where people experience discomfort when faced with a contradiction between two or more of their beliefs or actions. In addition, Sarah is Research Director at Future Narratives Lab, a nonprofit that works to define and analyse the underlying cultural models that shape the debates around key challenges of our time, and to design alternative approaches that create better outcomes. Sarah’s writing has been published in Aeon Magazine, the Guardian, and more. She has over 13,000 Twitter followers, and the number continues to grow.
Don't Talk about Politics will reshape the way you think about political communication. Stein Lubrano makes a compelling, and extremely well-researched case, for ending 'debate culture' and instead learning how to engage with new audiences with open minds and open hearts. This book changed the way I talk about politics. * Grace Blakeley, author of Vulture Capitalism * A very timely book indeed, full of wise, hopeful, sometimes sad, sometimes funny truths, about how we have reached the place we are in. It asks to put aside so much of what we think we know in the name of a more realistic assessment of how politics, language, communities and beliefs really work. Eye opening and necessary. * Alain de Botton, author of The Consolations of Philosophy and Essays in Love * A timely and hopeful critique of today’s political culture, Sarah Stein Lubrano challenges us to rethink politics – placing interpersonal activism and community-building above performative outrage. * Alice Cappelle, author of Collapse Feminism: The Online Battle for Feminism's Future * A rare combination of cognitive science and critical theory, Don’t Talk About Politics gets nitty-gritty about political friendship, community trust, anticapitalist social infrastructure, the limits of protest or persuasion, and possibilities for normalising a kind of collective “reasoning” capable of engineering a more livable world. Sarah Stein Lubrano is an exceptionally erudite and thoughtful veteran activist. She always challenges people’s liberalism in the gentlest and most effective way possible, even as she insists that books are rarely the thing (primarily) that changes people’s minds—rather, it’s the experience of acting together. A skillful, meticulous dismantling of debate culture. * Sophie Lewis, author of Abolish the Family and Enemy Feminisms * [A] thought-provoking debut work. * Daily Mail *
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