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politics How people actually hold political views: tribes, partisanship, and whether anybody reasons their way in.
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Economics writer; author of the Noahpinion newsletter
More pragmatically, nations without cultural unity have difficulty providing public goods; politics tends to break down into an ethnic spoils system instead of being run for the benefit of the masses.
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Our reading — they may agree, disagree or merely touch the same thing. Closest first: a shared subject counts for most, then how near the wording is.