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.