27 min
Is Polarization Pushing Us To Hate Each Other? Not Another Politics Podcast
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- Government
We’re constantly told that America is too divided. That we no long just oppose members of the opposite party, but actually hate them. That something is broken in American life.
We take these issues to one of the leading scholars in the world on polarization, Dr. Shanto Iyengar from Stanford University. And we focus on one of his papers, which argues that affective polarization really has gotten as bad as the experts say, and we discuss what we can do about it.
Paper: https://tinyurl.com/hrywxrl
We’re constantly told that America is too divided. That we no long just oppose members of the opposite party, but actually hate them. That something is broken in American life.
We take these issues to one of the leading scholars in the world on polarization, Dr. Shanto Iyengar from Stanford University. And we focus on one of his papers, which argues that affective polarization really has gotten as bad as the experts say, and we discuss what we can do about it.
Paper: https://tinyurl.com/hrywxrl
27 min