The entrenched polarization of our political landscape, though not unique in history, is nevertheless ominous and unsettling. Everyone seems to have a different read on the causes. Is the biggest problem Christian versus other? Wealth versus poverty? Republican versus Democrat? Pro-abortion rights versus anti-abortion rights? MeToo versus traditional patriarchy? Black and brown versus white? Advertisement Perhaps the impetus behind our political temper tantrums is not really the “either/or” thinking we’ve normalized. Our my-team-versus-your-team habit of interaction seems more like the symptom of our militant partisanship. The truly cruel weight of our times feels more like a miasma of general heaviness,...