Polarization: Its Past Present And Future

America’s political fractures reach beyond polling places and into the church pews.  Christian church leaders and laypeople should heed their faith’s fundamental creeds to foster “big tent” congregations where church members can practice what they preach by listening and modeling civil dialogue. Read More

Donald Trump’s presidency was one of the most tumultuous in U.S. history. His four years in the White House were a cavalcade of crises, scandals, lies and norm-busting. But through all the drama, public opinion was remarkably unmoved. Read More

Samar Ali, co-chair of Vanderbilt University's Project on Unity and American Democracy, is quoted. Read More

Presidents’ words create national identity. For better or worse, presidential rhetoric tells the American people who they are. Ultimately, a president’s voice must provide the American people with a concrete vision of how—and more importantly, why—to move forward together. Read More

A conversation series featuring Al Gore, followed by Condoleezza Rice, and led by Jon Meacham, streamed Thurs., Jan 14, 2021. Al Gore, the 45th vice president of the United States, and Vanderbilt’s own Jon Meacham set the tone for The Vanderbilt Project on Unity and American Democracy by focusing… Read More