fairleigh dickinson university is the host of this event, it's an hour, 15 minutes. there are. >> i'm pleased to talk to this wonderful looking, energetic, lively audience, and i will do my best to tell you what i know about the culture wars. let me begin by making the obvious point that we have all now become accustomed to seeing americans shouting at each other, sometimes literally across barricades about health care legislation, about immigration reform. we have come to hear constant talk about the polarization in the nation, conservatives versus liberals, democrats versus republicans, fox news versus msnbc. this is not new. the intensity of the debate is not new, the idea that there's division is not new. but in the not-so-distant past when americans thought of themselves as divided, as surely we always have, how were we divided? by race, by ethnicity, by religion, perhaps even by region of the country. but not in ideological or partisan terms, right? and we certainly in the past would not have thought of an american society experiencing a culture war. now, the i