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Why We're Polarized
- Narrated by: Ezra Klein
- Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
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Publisher's Summary
This New York Times and Wall Street Journal best seller shows us that America’s political system isn’t broken. The truth is scarier: It’s working exactly as designed. In this “superbly researched” (The Washington Post) and timely book, journalist Ezra Klein reveals how that system is polarizing us - and how we are polarizing it - with disastrous results.
“The American political system - which includes everyone from voters to journalists to the president - is full of rational actors making rational decisions given the incentives they face,” writes political analyst Ezra Klein. “We are a collection of functional parts whose efforts combine into a dysfunctional whole.”
“A thoughtful, clear and persuasive analysis” (The New York Times Book Review), Why We’re Polarized reveals the structural and psychological forces behind America’s descent into division and dysfunction. Neither a polemic nor a lament, this book offers a clear framework for understanding everything from Trump’s rise to the Democratic Party’s leftward shift to the politicization of everyday culture.
America is polarized, first and foremost, by identity. Everyone engaged in American politics is engaged, at some level, in identity politics. Over the past 50 years in America, our partisan identities have merged with our racial, religious, geographic, ideological, and cultural identities. These merged identities have attained a weight that is breaking much in our politics and tearing at the bonds that hold this country together.
Klein shows how and why American politics polarized around identity in the 20th century and what that polarization did to the way we see the world and one another. And he traces the feedback loops between polarized political identities and polarized political institutions that are driving our system toward crisis.
“Well worth reading” (New York magazine), this is an “eye-opening” (O, The Oprah Magazine) book that will change how you look at politics and perhaps at yourself.
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- 2020-02-10
interesting Ideas About Where We Are
If you are a listener to the Ezra Klein podcast, the content and performance will be very familiar. Not redundant, but pleasantly consolidated. To those less familiar with Klein, it teases out the specifics of why politics seem so negatively emotional and frustrating. Almost exclusively focused on American politics, western readers are likely to see analogues in their own country or at least I did.
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- Brian Katz
- 2021-03-26
thorough discussion of the most important issue
statement of the problem and discussion of possible solutions
HOWEVER, like every discussion on this severe problem, does not mention the single most important component: Americans' hatred of each other and their views and as promoted and weaponized by the media.
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- Kenneth Chisholm
- 2020-11-28
A masterfully insightful analysis of US politics.
With the worst of Trump's era over, I needed this book to show me me how that was possible. This book answered my questions with needed wisdom like how this era of deep divide is in some important ways better than the semi-concensus of the past that required a greater injustice to maintain.
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- Chuong Nguyen
- 2022-10-14
Occasionally interesting, but ultimately lacking
Too much social science data citations, and too little cultural observations. Klein’s book overlooks the cultural Grand Canyon that divides those on the Left and those on the Right, plus the growing tendency of both sides to demonize the other. Klein’s book is a work of an excellent technocrat, but inaccessible to those wishing to understand the divide.
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- Cody Macdougall
- 2021-01-18
A Near Miss
Ezra Klein's vocals are clean, and his writing easy to understand.
Sadly there is an underlining partisanship that even occasionally leaves subjects on misleading information.
There is valuable information and ideas here, so those interested in politics can find value in a listen.
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