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Ezra Klein in Conversation With Omar El Akkad
February 12, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
FreeAmerica’s political system isn’t broken. The truth is scarier: it’s working exactly as designed. In Why We’re Polarized (Avid Reader/Simon & Schuster), journalist Ezra Klein reveals how that system is polarizing us – and how we are polarizing it – with disastrous results. Neither a polemic nor a lament, Why We’re Polarized 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 will be joined in conversation by Omar El Akkad, author of American War.