Who should we be friends with? | Bloomberg 2020 could be good for the left
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In our divided and hypermoralized era, is it virtuous or traitorous to befriend someone from a different political tribe? That’s the question surrounding a viral New York Times column last week celebrating a budding friendship between Eve Peyser, a Bernie Sanders-loving writer for Vice, and Bari Weiss, a conservative editor and writer for the New York Times’ op-ed section. The two journalists, who co-wrote the column in the form of a dialogue, describe hating each other on Twitter but then discovering upon meeting in person that they can actually get along quite well. To their surprise, by doing things like swimming and eating homemade bread together and avoiding much talk about politics, they’ve apparently been able to build something of a bond. At the end of the column the Times encourages readers to invite their own social media foes out to coffee.
Who should we be friends with? | Bloomberg 2020 could be good for the left
Who should we be friends with? | Bloomberg…
Who should we be friends with? | Bloomberg 2020 could be good for the left
In our divided and hypermoralized era, is it virtuous or traitorous to befriend someone from a different political tribe? That’s the question surrounding a viral New York Times column last week celebrating a budding friendship between Eve Peyser, a Bernie Sanders-loving writer for Vice, and Bari Weiss, a conservative editor and writer for the New York Times’ op-ed section. The two journalists, who co-wrote the column in the form of a dialogue, describe hating each other on Twitter but then discovering upon meeting in person that they can actually get along quite well. To their surprise, by doing things like swimming and eating homemade bread together and avoiding much talk about politics, they’ve apparently been able to build something of a bond. At the end of the column the Times encourages readers to invite their own social media foes out to coffee.