How to Use “Contradictory Complexity” To Transcend Polarization

“Relativity” by M.C. Escher

I’ve read many books on political polarization, but Peter Coleman’s The Way Out: How to Overcome Toxic Polarization is my favorite one yet. The book provides many important contributions to the field of depolarization, including Coleman’s use of complexity science to illuminate the vicious cycles and “attractors” that keep us stuck in polarizing dynamics. But my favorite chapter…