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Share: Two rival theories paint very different pictures of the sources of our democratic dysfunction. The debate won’t be settled by accusations of political convenience. I would like to stage a fight between two different accounts of the current political landscape—what’s been called the “post-truth” era, the infodemic, the end of democracy, or perhaps most accurately, the total shitshow of the now. According to one oft-told story, what’s going on is systemic polarization. Our once-peaceful society has been riven into polarized camps. Extremism and political separation are the c...

GUEST: Robert B. Talisse - W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University. Author of Overdoing Democracy: We Must Put Politics In Its Place. He specializes in contemporary political philosophy, with current research focused on democracy, polarization, public ignorance, and egalitarianism.  Transcript   Laura Knoy: From New Hampshire Public Radio, I'm Laura Knoy, and this is The Exchange. There's plenty of lamenting these days about America's political divide, but our guest today says in order to narrow the gap, we all need to put politics in its proper place. That ...