13 March 2020
“Superbly researched and written” FRANCIS FUKUYAMA
“It’s been a long time since I learned so much from one book” Rutger Bregman, author of Utopia for Realists
“Few books are as well-matched to the moment of their publication as Ezra Klein’s Why We’re Polarized” Dan Hopkins, The Washington Post
“It is likely to become the political book of the year… Powerful [and] intelligent” Fareed Zakaria, CNN
“A thoughtful, clear and persuasive analysis” New York Times
America’s political system isn’t broken. The truth is scarier: it’s working exactly as designed. In this book, journalist Ezra Klein reveals how that system is polarizing us – and how we are polarizing it – with disastrous results.
In Why We’re Polarized, Klein 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.
Klein shows how and why American politics polarized in the twentieth century, what that polarization did to Americans’ views of the world and one another, and how feedback loops between polarized political identities and polarized political institutions drive the system toward crisis. This revelatory book will change how you look at politics, and perhaps at yourself.
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Ezra Klein is the editor-at-large and cofounder of Vox, the award-winning explanatory news organization. Launched in 2014, Vox reaches more than 50 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.
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