A Way to Tamp Down the Toxic Politics of National Identity Rather than end our uncivil war, our efforts to find a shared American identity have left us more divided than ever. In the search for unity, we should look to a revived focus on local identity. Jay Ruckelshaus, University of Oxford | March 10, 2021 | Opinion
A central promise of the calls for unity that now saturate our public sphere is that a renewed focus on American identity not partisan identity will usher in a more humane politics. If only we could remember our shared national identity, it is said, we could reduce polarization and end what President Biden has called our uncivil war. Numerous well-funded initiatives with this goal in mind have sprung up, such as the Aspen Institute s Citizenship and American Identity Program, whose aim is to promote a shared sense of national identity.
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