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.

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...

A new report by the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) and the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) argues that one of the greatest mistakes the United States can make is to imagine that Iranian activities in a given arena--the nuclear program, for example--are isolated from Iranian undertakings in another. The report examines those other areas

Last week I wrote about the standings in the presidential race and said it looked like a long, hard slog through about a dozen clearly identified target states, much like the contests in 2000 and 2004. Call it the 2000/2004 long, hard slog scenario.

Renowned cellist Ignacio Alcover will perform and discuss classical selections from Johann Sebastian Bach’s Suite for Cello Solo BWV 1007, contemporary selections from Henri Dutilleux’s Suite for Cello Solo, and Haskel Small’s Une Strophe sur le Nom de Paul Sacher. Please join us for this very special musical evening.

James Piereson’s provocative new book Camelot and the Cultural Revolution: How the Assassination of John F. Kennedy Shattered American Liberalism (Encounter, 2007) argues that liberalism lost its political dominance and intellectual coherence when it proved too brittle to confront the awkward truth of John F. Kennedy’s assassination at the hands...

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.