tzimmer_history, Weekend reading: Over the past two weeks, I wrote 9,000 words on the problem of #polarization - or rather:
On how the “polarization” narrative obscures more than it illuminates and why that’s exactly what makes it so attractive to elites across the political spectrum. 1/
Part I: https://thomaszimmer.substack.com/p/the-treacherous-allure-of-the-polarization
Part II: https://thomaszimmer.substack.com/p/why-americas-elites-love-to-decry