It's comfortable living in a cocoon -- associating only with those who share your views, reading journalism and watching news that only reinforce them, avoiding those on the other side of the cultural divide.

Liberals have been doing this for a long time. In 1972 the movie critic Pauline Kael said...

Why can't our opponents be reasonable? In his new book, “The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion,” social psychologist Jonathan Haidt explores the origins of morality in our rapid and automatic moral intuitions.

Arthur C. Brooks was a Seattle-born liberal, but today he is president of the American Enterprise Institute, a center-right economic think tank in Washington, D.C.Brooks sees two competing visions for America’s future. To him, our excessive government spending and regulations have pushed us near a tipping point,...

As critics see it, the loss of our common culture is a result not of cultural changes but of shifts in policy and the economy. There are two problems with this line of argument.

On February 17 the Italian newspaper: "L’Unità" (the official Democratic Party and already former communist newspaper) published an interesting article by the Hon. Stefano Fassina (responsible for the economical department of the Italian Democratic Party), eloquently entitled: "Catholic thinking can help to defeat liberalism." The author calls for a fruitful...

American Enterprise Institute (AEI) president Arthur C. Brooks has announced that AEI scholar Leon R. Kass, M.D., is the recipient of AEI’s 2012 Irving Kristol Award. Dr. Kass will receive the award and deliver the Irving Kristol Lecture at AEI’s annual dinner on Wednesday, May 2, 2012, at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C.

India is fast undergoing one of the most momentous transformations the world has ever seen. In his book India: A Portrait, Patrick French chronicles that epic change, telling human stories to explain India’s larger national narrative and exposing the cultural foundations of its political, economic and social complexities. Sadanand Dhume, a resident fellow at AEI, will moderate a discussion about this book. Walter Andersen, director of SAIS’s South Asia program, will provide introductory remarks.