arthur brooks, we will start with you. guest: he has been astute about these things for a long time. he is not wrong. there is a business model that says we have to make money. c-span is a bit different. it is a product -- it is a public service from cable. the networks are required to meet a bottom line. they have a for profit business model. the truth is that getting people fired up to scratch their domain dash line pathways gets them addicted. when people are addicted -- they will tune in. i am not saying anything is especially radical or surprising for that matter. what we have seen is the extent to which this can make vast money laden empires in media. what can we do about that? the answer is that all of us can protect ourselves. in the same way that you want to protect your children and yourself from highly addicted to substances, you do not want to be in communities where people are dealing with drugs, we can get away from the median net feeling that is going on in the -- that starts with people standing up to the o

arthur brooks, we will start with you.: he has been astute about these things for a long time. he is not wrong. there is a business model that says we have to make money. c-span is a bit different. it is a product -- it is a public service from cable. the networks are required to meet a bottom line. they have a for profit business model. the truth is that getting people fired up to scratch their domain dash line pathways gets them addicted. when people are addicted -- they will tune in. i am not saying anything is especially radical or surprising for that matter. what we have seen is the extent to which this can make vast money laden empires in media. what can we do about that? the answer is that all of us can protect ourselves. in the same way that you want to protect your children and yourself from highly addicted to substances, you do not want to be in communities where people are dealing with drugs, we can get away from the median net feeling that is going on in the -- that starts with people standing up to the outrage

host: we are hope to be joined by steven dinkin from t up next joined by arthur brooks and author love your enemies. thanks for being with us this morning. >> delighted to be with you. >> and joined from the national conflict resolution center can you hear us. >>flic i can. >> we resolve the technological divide. let's talk about the political divide

a student next on washington journal, we are joined by arthur brooks, professor at -- author of the book "love your enemies. -- "love your enemies." thank you for being with us this morning. guest: thank you. host: we are hope to be joined by steven dinkin from t up next joined by arthur brooks and author love your enemies. thanks for being with us this morning. >> delighted to be with you. >> and joined from the national conflict resolution center can you hear us. >>flic i can. >> we resolve the technological divide. let's talk about the political divide in terms of political polarization with the current state of polarization how far back do you trace this and what are the social factors that have driven it to thehe point where we are now? >> everybody knows it's bad 93 percent americans literally say they hate how divided we have become if they are doing what they need to do to make it go away but reason they don't like it it's not historically something in the united states that is our equilibrium of our would like to be and then go back to the 1h century to find this type of polariz

studenn journal, we are joined by arthur brooks, professor at -- author of the book "love your enemies. -- "love your enemies." thank you for being with us this morning.

yesterday starting with congressman richard torres at 7:00 jay clayton, former aei president, arthur brooksat 8, td ameritrade joe moglia, and one those participating in the hearing, citadel founder and ceo ken griffin, all coming up right here on "squawk box. >> i mean, think if we forgot, like molly ringwold, think about that she went through an entire movie. >> "16 candles,". >> it was horrible, and she got more and more depressed and sad that people didn't appreciate her. we wanted to make sure out of the box that's not going to happen know you know, we've done birthdays together all three of us very a very long time on this show. i'm very appreciative. >> is it 12 or 13? it's a long -- it is quite a while, and -- >> ten >> i watched you. >> is it only ten? >> yeah, because i remember -- >> he's in the 40s now, aren't you? you're no longer that young, you know, go getter, you're now sort of on the downward. >> as my son said last night, you're not just 40, you're now in your mid 40s. it's 44. he thinks that's mid 40s. >> that's what kids are for to make us all feel better about ourselve

then we will discuss political polarization with stephen dink and and arthur brooks. "washington journal" live at 7:00 eastern. >> coming up today on c-span, nancy pelosi holds her weekly briefing at 10:45 a.m. eastern. the ceos of robin hood and reddit join investment from executives for a hearing on the recent stock price increase involving gamestop. at 11:00 a.m. eastern on c-span 32 examining the eastern -- the recovery during the coronavirus pandemic. on c-span three legal scholars testify about the supreme court's caseload and the emergency rulings that don't appear on the courts regular docket. that is live at 2:00 p.m. eastern. >> listen to c-span's podcast, the weekly. this week a look at foreign policy and nato. senior policy analyst for european affairs with the heritage foundation margaret thatcher center for freedom. they talk about nato's role today. >> there still is this idea that at the end of the cold war there was this dividend. there is the end of history, this was the mindset that was known from russia. there was this waywardness about what is the

we will start with arthur brooks in terms of political polarization. if you look at our current state of polarization, how far back do you trace this and what are some of the social factors that have driven us to the point where we are now? guest: everybody knows it is bad and the truth is that most people dislike it. any 3% of americans say they hate how divided we have become as a country. that does not mean that they are doing what they need to do to make it go away. they do not like it. the reason why is because it is not historically something that >> there are also economic roots to it. the good news is it generally does not persist, but it is going to take leadership to bring our back. >> we just finished up the segment talking about the civil war you looked back civil war with fear and horror. i guess the same question to you in terms of how we got where we are now. >> there is a long history of polarization in our society. currently, there are issues both political, economic, and other issues driving this. politically, what is happening in our

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