I was probably at my most brokenness in the throes of the pandemic. The experience of watching even that be so easily and neatly subsumed by our partisan rancor. I think if you can maintain having both brokenness and status quoist ways of looking at the world, what that allows you to do is judge things at a local level. It's a little bit like cleaning out your closet. If you have a philosophy about your closet, you're going to end up with a bad closet.
Sean Illing speaks with Alana Newhouse, the editor-in-chief of Tablet magazine. They discuss her recent essay on "brokenism," a term she coined in an effort to redefine political divisions in America. Newhouse argues that the most salient divide right now is between those who want to fix the institutions we have and those who want to burn it all down and start fresh.
Host: Sean Illing (@seanilling), host, The Gray Area
Guest: Alana Newhouse (@alananewhouse) editor-in-chief, Tablet
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