Post Tagged 'political polarization'

June 11, 2024

Becoming a Constitutional People Once Again

Yuval Levin opens his new book, American Covenant: How the Constitution Unified Our Nation—And Could Do So Again, with counsel against despair. He writes, “This is a book about America, and therefore, it is a hopeful book.” Continue Reading...

November 23, 2021

Planes, Trains, and Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving is a distinctively American holiday, unlike Christmas, and yet we have very few popular movies about it. Maybe this is a good thing—it’s a family affair, not necessarily a public spectacle. Continue Reading...

October 20, 2021

We are a fractured nation, but there is still hope

It’s become a commonplace observation that while we are indeed a divided nation, we have been divided before and, some claim, in much worse ways. The first part is undoubtedly true, while the second seems more debatable, and this particularly in light of a recent poll coming from the Center for Responsive Politics (CRP) at the University of Virginia that shows roughly half of Americans on both sides of the political spectrum seriously indulging fantasies of secession. Continue Reading...