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Two Books on the Polarization of American Politics
Two books on the polarization of this country are reviewed in today’s Washington Post.
“In America today, there is a disconnect between an unrepresentative political class and the citizenry it purports to represent. The political process today not only is less representative than it was a generation ago and less supported by the citizenry, but the outcomes of that process are at a minimum no better. The present disconnect is cause for concern and not something that can be discounted as either normal or unimportant.”
The level of extremism seems unprecedented in contemporary America. I want to understand this phenomena in order to make sense of what I see as a highly destructive force in American political discourse. I’m not against partisanship and differences of opinion. Rather, I’m concerned about the process of dialogue—how we discuss and resolve these differences.
Collage Culture: Examining the 21st Century Identity Crisis
By Aaron Rose, Mandy Kahn & Brian Roettinger
This looks amazing! #AMST
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“Jim Dow’s American Studies presents a vision of America at once familiar and foreign; a country constantly reinventing itself visually, both discarding and preserving elements of its past, in a relentless, unplanned process of change.”
Marshall McLuhan - The World is a Global Village (CBC TV), via healthcarefuture
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