Folge 60: Religion and Politics Beyond the Culture Wars – A Book Talk with Darren Dochuk

In the 2020 election, Democratic candidate Joe Biden secured the
White House not the least because of his promise that he could
get Democrats and Republicans talking again, that the politics of
his administration would “reach across the aisle.” Many
considered this naive and unrealistic, and one year into his
presidency, American politics remain starkly divided. Democrats
and Republicans not only seem to hold different views on almost
everything – abortion, school curricula, tax rates or what causes
climate change; at times they seem to inhabit different political
universes.  Yet, such a strictly partisan narrative
might not tell the whole story of American politics in the modern
age. In this episode of the HCA podcast, Anja Schüler is
talking about a different perspective on the American culture
wars with Darren Dochuk, the editor of Religion and
Politics Beyond the Culture Wars: New Directions for a Divided
America. Darren Dochuk is the Andrew
V. Tackes College Professor of History and Director of
Graduate Studies at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend,
Indiana.