Uploaded March 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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Featuring: Julian E. Zelizer, Margaret Hoover (moderator)
Recorded: January 22, 2025

After years of partisan gridlock in Washington, difference in political ideology is often associated with dysfunction and distrust, rather than a spirit of debate. Through a sweeping history of Congress since the founding, historian Julian E. Zelizer argues that leaning into these deep differences is in fact the key to creating opportunities for collaboration, cooperation, and consensus. In conversation with Margaret Hoover, Zelizer outlines how responsible partisanship and party-oriented reforms could enable our politics to speak more clearly and forcefully for the American people.

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