What Liberals and Conservatives Can Learn From Each Other

In a recent book review, Wall Street Journal critic Bart Swain asks a penetrating question: “Isn’t the great problem of our politics precisely that so much of it can’t be conducted face to face?” Innumerable factors, ranging from the bubble culture of social media to the geographic distributions of population —north versus south, coasts versus middle America, urban versus rural — account for the ways Americans experience political divisions today, with the unfortunate consequence of not understanding one another very well. This session presents an opportunity to address those misconceptions, and learn from each other face to face, away from Twitter and cable TV.