"I am someone who, if I'm being honest and I try to be, I incline towards cynicism. And what I was getting at was maybe speaking to the brokenness out there," he says. "To be a brokenness maybe isn't necessarily to be a fatalist or even worse, a nihilist." He hopes his term will capture its moment as we move quickly through brokenism into buildism.
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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