How America Polarized

It's clear that the United States (and Canada, to a lesser degree) has become socially and politically polarized. I've commented about this before and will likely do so again. It's a sad and very dangerous situation.

I've been catching up on some older articles that I saved in Pocket and just read "How America Polarized" from arcdigital.media. Unfortunately, the link to the original article by Kevin Dorst is no longer working*. However, after some googling, I found this article, "How We Polarized" on his blog. It seems to be an earlier version of the arcdigial article with much of the same information in a more condensed form. 

The article has three main sections:

• In what sense have we "polarized"?
• Why do societies polarize?
• What has changed?

Dorst is a professor of philosophy, so he knows what he's talking about, but he's also one of the rare academics who can write clearly for a lay audience. This, and the other articles on his blog, are worth reading.

*If anyone can find the link to the original arcdigital article I mentioned above, please post it in the comments.