Lilliana Mason

Lilliana Mason is SNF Agora Institute Professor of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University. She is coauthor, with Nathan P. Kalmoe, of Radical American Partisanship: Mapping Violent Hostility, Its Causes, and the Consequences for Democracy (2022), and author of Uncivil Agreement: How Politics Became Our Identity (2018).
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October 2026, Volume 37, Issue 4

Polarization Is Not the Problem

Americans have never been angrier with one another. But polarization is not the disease—it is the response to a revanchist movement seeking to roll back sixty years of social progress.