Enemy Establishments: How the Hundred-Year War to Control America's Institutions Polarized Its Politics

A major new interpretation of political polarization in America that traces its origins to fundamentally incompatible constitutional visions

American politics seem intractably polarized; no-holds-barred political conflict has engulfed not only electoral contests but disputes over courts, universities, expertise, and the administrative state. How did our politics become so gladiatorial? In Enemy Establishments, Calvin TerBeek argues that the conventional wisdom about polarization, centering o...