brought about in america and louie minnon has written about this -- brought about in the next generation, a philosophical outlook or temperament we have come to call pragmatism, a la william james and others. is that gone? can that kind of thing truly be defeated? we think our current word is "polarization." it is a nice word, isn't it, for political deadlock, political hatred, political civil war. is pragmatism dying now? in the political arena? it may not be among reflective college professors. >> i don't want to take us away from our topic. but it is my hope that we are lumbering unwittingly, unconsciously half blindly into some kind of middle ground that we'll find whether we are