{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/62cda17f1c07740014d65e4f/635eb43b6041ac0011cd238a?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"The Polarisation Episode","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/62cda17f1c07740014d65e4f/1682208692953-b53f97290c3b797f369dbac0e38309d9.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>It is conventional to say that the US is more polarised now than ever before – at least since the Civil War. But intense partisanship has been a feature of American politics since the Revolution. So what is different about polarisation today? And if there is a “cold civil war” in America at the moment, how will it end? Adam talks about this with the political scientist James Morone, one of the shrewdest observers of America’s ever-divided soul.</p>","author_name":"Adam Smith"}