“We need to put politics in its place because when politics becomes everything, we become bad at it,” Dr. Robert Talisse said. Talisse is an American philosopher and political theorist. He is the chair of the Department of Philosophy and a political science professor here at Vanderbilt. Currently, Talisse is finishing the final book of his three-part series dealing with the moral responsibilities of democratic citizenship. Talisse and I talk about the importance of precision in words, how to become better at arguing and how democracy helps us find meaning in life.