In recent years, a cottage industry has grown up around identifying, describing, and offering solutions to the problem of polarization in American social and political life. Whether and how much the problem is unique to or especially pronounced in twenty-first century America vis-à-vis any other time and place remains debatable, but that there is much “talking past each other” in contemporary public discourse is so obvious as to be indisputable.
Kevin Schmiesing, "Editorial: Communicating Ideas," Journal of Markets & Morality 23, no. 1 (2020): 1-3.