Defusing American Anger: A depolarization endeavor
Zachary ElwoodThoughts for people interested in reducing political toxicity and us-vs-them thinking. By Zachary Elwood, author of "Defusing American Anger" and "How Contempt Destroys Democracy," and host of the psych podcast People Who Read People.
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Talks on polarization: Media appearances by me, Zach Elwood, in 2025 and 2026
I’m Zach Elwood, and I’ve been talking about and writing about toxic political polarization for about seven years now (e.g., learn about my books). I haven’t updated the media page on my book site for a while, so I figured I’d list some of...
On Sam Harris's refusal to debate Israel-critics — and how that relates to toxic conflict
“Many readers and podcast listeners have been dismayed by my enduring support for Israel and now urge me to debate someone—really anyone—drawn from a growing cast of scholars, grifters, and moral lunatics who have made that beleaguered co...
"When I first saw your work, I rolled my eyes." On skepticism about reducing us-vs-them thinking.
“I’ll be honest, when I first came across your page… I rolled my eyes.” So started a message I got on Substack a couple weeks ago. I’ll share the rest of that message below.
When it comes to political depolarization/bridge-building effort...
Working on a new book about reading people
This post has been moved to my poker tells Substack.
I work on reducing political contempt — and yet I have contempt for Trump. Is that a contradiction?
This will be my last work on polarization for a while, due to my needing to spend time on other endeavors. If you’ve enjoyed my work and want to encourage me to do more in future, please leave a review on Amazon or Goodreads for the books o...
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I have a psychology-focused podcast, People Who Read People (www.behavior-podcast.com). I've worked on reducing toxic political polarization (www.american-anger.com/reviews) and reducing noticeable poker tells (www.readingpokertells.com).
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