steven dinkin, do you want to respond? guest: modern technology really has its advantages and disadvantages. the cell phone has really created a lot of issues in terms of people just being absorbed in their phone and not engaging in conversation. on the other hand, people are using the phone to access news. during this time of the pandemic, i had the great opportunity to have my adult children back in our house. what we do every night is we have dinner around the table and talk about times gone by. i don't think people are having family dinners around the table. but that is really the moment where we say put your phones away, let's have a discussion, let's talk about the issues of the day. and i think we have to create situations in our lives where we can put the phones down and have the conversation that starts really at the dinner table. host: to margaret, delray beach, florida. hi there. caller: good morning. actually, your last caller stole my thunder. i am so in agreement with that, and i would even give a little exam

host: steven dinkin, you are a columnist, but you are president of the and crc. this is a big conflict. -- of the and crc. what is the resolution? guest: is an ongoing challenge. we are dealing with the most challenging issues in our society. and finding the path forward is the key and we began as a mediation organization where we look at ways through communication strategies and conflict resolution strategies to come to a solution. our focus is on communication and how to navigate through these challenges using these communication strategies. the key is to engage in the dialogue just as arthur is saying. it is critical that we have that discussion. let us disagree, but let us engage in a discussion. we work a lot on college campuses where we are working with young leaders and what we are finding is that these young leaders are staying in their own sidelines. they just communicate with the people that look like them, so they might be in a club, a sorority, and what happens is they just remain in those circles and it is like aiden -- like an echo chamber. they hea

steven dinkin, do you want to respond?: modern technology really has its advantages and disadvantages. the cell phone has really created a lot of issues in terms of people just being absorbed in their phone and not engaging in conversation. on the other hand, people are using the phone to access news. during this time of the pandemic, i had the great opportunity to have my adult children back in our house. what we do every night is we have dinner around the table and talk about times gone by. i don't think people are having family dinners around the table. but that is really the moment where we say put your phones away, let's have a discussion, let's talk about the issues of the day. and i think we have to create situations in our lives where we can put the phones down and have the conversation that starts really at the dinner table. host: to margaret, delray beach, florida. hi there. caller: good morning. actually, your last caller stole my thunder. i am so in agreement with that, and i would even give a little example. t

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

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 polarization that we see in congress and the ideology between the parties so one out of six americans have stopped talking to a close friend or family member because of politics 44 percent are restrained from famil

host: we are hope to be joined by steven dinkin from the national conflict resolution center. can you hear at this morning? guest: yes. host: we solved our technological divide. let us talk about the political divide. 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