Most Americans are distressed by their country’s growing divisions. But the problem is not excessive anger or incivility. Rather, it is a culture of contempt — the growing conviction that those who disagree with us are worthless as people.

AEI President Arthur Brooks has a solution in his new book “Love Your Enemies: How Decent People Can Save America from the Culture of Contempt” (Broadside Books, 2019), which charts a course to a better kind of politics, based on a clear and bracing commitment to loving one another.

This event took place on March 14, 2019. 

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