具體描述
“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 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.
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. These 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.
This is a revelatory book that will change how you look at politics, and perhaps at yourself.
用戶評價
##前半段有意思，後半段老是在說已經知道的事情，一直在走神……
評分##“點”有點少啊，相當的囉嗦。看評論說後半比前半還要差，算瞭，棄讀
評分Audio version is a mistake
評分Audio version is a mistake
評分##“點”有點少啊，相當的囉嗦。看評論說後半比前半還要差，算瞭，棄讀
評分##後麵看著好捉急…
評分##作者是Vox創始人和編輯 ，信息量比較大，新觀點比較少，reader discretion is advised。
評分##Smart到Ezra Klein這個程度可以說是一件sexy的事情瞭......
評分##有一定的洞察力。但這個書最大的優點是它的可讀性，Ezra有能力把一些很麻煩的事情用非常清晰和簡單的語言錶達齣來，在閱讀上不會故意給讀者製造任何障礙，也不會故意展現自己的聰明，但這種能力就是最高級的聰明。
