“We live in a country in which many people live in information cocoons in which they only talk to members of their own party and read blogs of their own sect.” — David Brooks

A friendly challenge: Every left-leaning reader and writer of this site should today read with open mind a right-leaning post or blog. Every right-leaning reader and writer should do the same, only (obviously) in reverse. Then tomorrow: Rinse and repeat.

So go ahead: Pick your “poison.” It might actually be an antidote, or at least an ingredient of an antidote to the divisions that ail us.