American democracy finds itself in a strange place in the first quarter of the twenty-first century. On the one hand, the country suffers from bitter, partisan divisions as reflected in the fact that adults who identify themselves with a political party increasingly demonstrate strong loyalty to their own party, and even stronger distaste for the other party. A 2017 Gallup poll reveals, astonishingly, that large majorities of self-identified Democrats and Republicans strongly prefer that their children marry someone from their political party – while a similar majority support same-sex marriage, and a much larger majority accept interracial marriage.2 At the same time, huge numbers of Americans are utterly disengaged from politics, so much so that they do not even bother to vote.