Why We're Polarized Peter H. Johnston well-written

well-written

We get a close-up view of the eternal rift between diplomatic knowledge and political imperative

In their startling new book

Charles de Fleurieu

Why We're Polarized Peter H. Johnston well-writtenAmerica is polarized by identity. Over the past fifty years in America, partisan identities have merged with racial, religious, geographic, ideological, and cultural identities, attaining a weight that is breaking much in politics and tearing at the bonds that hold the country together. Political analyst Ezra Klein shows how and why American politics polarized around identity in the twentieth century and what that polarization did to the way people