Ben Shapiro is right that this gesture is simple and easy. It's also empty—depolarization isn't achieved by being a raging hyperpartisan bomb-thrower for 364 days of the year while pantomiming a commitment to ending partisan rancor by listing some names across a few tweets. 
You want to help us depolarize? You want to mitigate the partisan animus that is swallowing up every social issue into a culture war maelstrom from which it feels like there's no escape?
Recommending Steven Pinker isn't going to help with that. Reimagining your publication can.
Recommending Steven Pinker isn't going to help with that. Reimagining your publication can.
As I put it in a prior piece: Ben is the embodiment of an infinitely toxic style of commentary responsible for all manner of point-scoring mindlessness. Which means that, for him, depolarization represents an existential threat—it represents annihilation.
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"We can do it. We can depolarize. Let me show you the way."
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