How Britain and America are coming apart – Telegraph Blogs
Wednesday 11 December 2013 | Blog Feed | All feeds  How Britain
and America are coming apart  The Grand Canyon  America's great
divide: is the US tearing itself in two?  The big trend in
political thought at the moment seems to be the American
cleavage book, by which I mean cleavages in the negative, social
sense. Late last year Pat Buchanan’s Suicide of a Superpower
suggested that America was breaking up along cultural and ethnic
lines, the former presidential contender arguing that as whites
became a minority race would become more, not less, of an issue.
(Buchanan’s book got him fired from television channel MSNBC,
whose president said the book should not “be part of the
national dialogue, much less part of the dialogue on MSNBC”. As
the saying goes: “Shut up, he explained”).  Next month The
Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt, a very different type of
author from a different part of the political spectrum, tackles
the increasingly bitter political d