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Ezra Klein presented by University Book Store
Join us for an evening with Ezra Klein in discussion of his new book, Why We're Polarized.
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.
In this book, Klein reveals the structural and psychological forces behind America's descent into division and dysfunction. Neither a polemic nor a lament, Klein offers a clear framework for understanding everything from Trumps 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 fifty 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.
Klein shows how and why American politics polarized around identity in the twentieth 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. A revelatory book that will change how you look at politics, and perhaps at yourself.
About the Author
Ezra Klein is the editor-at-large and cofounder of Vox, the award-winning explanatory news organization. Launched in 2014, Vox reaches more than fifty million people across its platforms each month. Klein is also the host of the podcast The Ezra Klein Show, cohost of The Weeds podcast, and an executive producer on Vox's Netflix show, Explained. Previously, Klein was a columnist and editor at The Washington Post, a policy analyst at MSNBC, and a contributor to Bloomberg. Hes written for The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books, and appeared on many programs including Face the Nation, The Daily Show, and PBS NewsHour.
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LocationUniversity Temple United Methodist Church The Sanctuary (View)
1415 NE 43rd Street
Seattle, WA 98105
United States
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