Why We're Polarized

“Over the past 50 years in America, our partisan identities have merged with our racial, religious, geographic, ideological, and cultural identities. Those merged identities have attained a weight that is breaking much in our politics and tearing at the bonds that hold this country together.” – Simon & Schuster (2020)

Join Richard (Dick) Virgin to hear more about and discuss Erza Klein’s book Why We’re Polarized. Originally planned as a talk for Books Between Bites, we feel this topic and discussion are pertinent now more than ever, even if the structure needs to be a bit different. As we head deeper into this election cycle and emotions rise, a fuller understanding of how we got here is essential.