Common Ground Season3, Ep.5 - Culture War: America's Blood Sport

The poisonous cocktail of social polarization - a culture war that infuses everything from how we educate our children to how we see our place in history - is ripping apart the shared American identity that made the country a ‘melting pot’ and fueled its post-war growth into a superpower. One after another, leaders inflame passions by drawing indelible identity lines in the cultural sands, provoking calls for ‘national divorce’ and turning even minor questions of how we live together into what amounts to a life and death blood sport.

In this episode of Common Ground with Jane Whitney, a diverse panel discusses how exploiting racial, religious, sexual and cultural identities for partisan gain pours salt into our national wounds, provokes violence and threatens our democracy.