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81 | Ezra Klein on Politics, Polarization, and Identity

2020-01-27 · 82 min · episode 81 · 12 entities

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People have always disagreed about politics, passionately and sometimes even violently. But in certain historical moments these disagreements were distributed without strong correlations, so that any one political party would contain a variety of views. In a representative democracy, that kind of distribution makes it easier to accomplish things. In contrast, today we see strong political polarization: members of any one party tend to line up with each other on a range of issues, and correspondingly view the other party with deep distrust. Political commentator Ezra Klein has seen this shift in action, and has studied it carefully in his new book  Why We're Polarized.  We talk about the extent to which the apparent polarization is real, how we can trace its causes, and whether there's anything we can do about it. Support Mindscape on  Patreon . Ezra Klein received a B.A. in political science from the University of California, Los Angeles. He is currently the editor-at-large and founder of  Vox . As a writer and editor his work has appeared in/on  The Washington Post , MSNBC, Bloomberg,  The New York Review of Books , and  The New Yorker.  Among his awards are Blogger of the Year ( The Week ), 50 Most Powerful People in Washington DC ( GQ ), Best Online Commentary (Online News Association), and the Carey McWilliams Award (American Political Science Association). Vox profile The Ezra Klein Show  podcast Why We're Polarized Wikipedia Twitter