Modern societal division stems from an excessive focus on personal freedom without a corresponding commitment to individual responsibility and the common good.

“We talk a lot about freedom and not very much about responsibility. And I think especially in the American system, the whole point of a system that gives or allows for a lot of personal liberty, was intended to be checked by private virtue.”

The current national divide is characterized by a breakdown in rational communication, erosion of trust, and the replacement of virtue with binary tribalism.

“This national divide that we find ourselves in, a moment in which there's this dispersion of news and information in a partizan silos. There's a breakdown from my perspective, in healthy communication.”