In recent years, there has been no end to the hair-pulling by political scientists and other commentators about the ideological and partisan conflict that has gripped American politics and government. Is there any way out of this mess? To answer that question, we need to look to the attitudes of young Americans, who are the voters the parties will be chasing in the years to come. If there is a way of today’s political polarization, it is likely to come from how the parties—and the Republicans in particular—respond to the attitudes of young people. CONT.
Robert Y. Shapiro (Columbia), The Monkey Page