Summary: A HOUSE DIVIDED Episode Two of the Democracy Test with co-hosts Neal Conan and Heather Cox Richardson If you think partisan politics are bad now, consider the 1850s, when members of Congress pulled knives and pistols on the floor of the House of Representatives and political arguments turned into brawls. Those dispute lead to the bloodiest war in our history. Next time on “The Democracy Test from Truth Politics and Power,” hosts Neal Conan and Heather Cox Richardson talk with historian Joanne Freeman about the road to the Civil War, scholar Jennifer McCoy discusses the patterns of political polarization and philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah suggests ways to overcome our dangerous tribal divisions.
