Thomas Edsall’s latest column for the NY Times attempts to flesh out what he describes as an ongoing battle within academia over the issue of political polarization. On one side of this argument (and the one he seems to be promoting a bit) is Lilliana Mason. She’s a professor of political science at Johns Hopkins who has put forth the not-terribly-surprising argument that polarization is the fault of right-wing extremism and thus polarization is good.
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