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Partisan divide creates different Americas, separate lives

  • Written by Robert B. Talisse, W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy, Vanderbilt University
Even in the physical world, it's hard to cross partisan lines.igorstevanovic/Shutterstock.com

When people try to explain why the United States is so politically polarized now, they frequently refer to the concept of “echo chambers.”

That’s the idea that people on social media interact only with like-minded people, reinforcing each...

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