In his new book, If We Can Keep It: How the Republic Collapsed and How It Might be Saved, Daily Beast special correspondent Michael Tomasky offers an original account of the deep roots of political polarization in America and—in a refreshing and hopeful twist—offers an agenda for how to fix it. Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, moderates.
Participants
- Michael Tomasky is a columnist for The Daily Beast, a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times, a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books, and the editor of Democracy: A Journal of Ideas. He is the author of five books, including Left for Dead: The Life, Death, and Possible Resurrection of Progressive Politics in America; Hillary’s Turn; Bill Clinton, a short political biography included in The American Presidents series; and If We Can Keep It: How the Republic Collapsed, and How It Might Be Saved.
- Jeffrey Rosen is the president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, a nonpartisan nonprofit organization devoted to educating the public about the U.S. Constitution. Rosen is also professor of law at The George Washington University Law School and a contributing editor of The Atlantic.
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