We at the Cato Institute try to live our principles and that means taking no government money.

So it's through support from people like you that we're able to work toward our shared vision of

individual liberty, limited government, free markets, and peace.

Please consider supporting the Cato Daily Podcast and the broad mission of the Cato Institute

by visiting Cato.org.

Slash Podcast sponsor, and learn more about the benefits of sponsorship.

Give a thousand dollars and I'll gladly give you a shout out on the

podcast.

Thank you.

This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Monday, December 20th, 2021.

I'm Caleb Brown.

How did Cato's Gene Healy spend the lockdown?

Brushing up on partisanship, polarization, and hatred.

At the most recent Cato Club gathering at the Cato Institute,

Healy detailed what he found. Thank you all for being here. It's been way too long.

I hope that you and yours stayed healthy during your extended period of house arrest and maybe even

got to use your time productively, took up home pickling or deepened your yoga practice, that

sort of thing.

Me, I spent much of my lockdown in windowless

row house basement office reading up

on the political science literature on toxic partisanship and the rise of political hatred.

I don't know why, it was just on my mind a lot at the time.

...