This TED Dialogue series features Gretchen Carlson and David Brooks in conversation with head

curator Chris Anderson and a special performance by Vye Higginson's Harlem Gospel Choir.

Welcome to this next edition of TED Dialogues.

We're trying to do some bridging here today.

You know, the American dream has inspired millions of people around the world for many years.

Today, I think, you can say that America's divided,

perhaps more than ever,

and the division seems to be getting worse.

It's actually really hard,

even for people on different sides to have a conversation.

People almost feel disgusted with each other. Some families can't even speak to each other right now.

Our purpose in this dialogue today is to try to do something about that, just to try and have a different

kind of conversation, to do some listening, some thinking, some understanding. And I have two people

with us to help us do that. They're not going to come at this hammer and tongue against each other.

This is not like cable news. This is two people who've both spent a lot of their working life.

In the political center or right of the center,

they've immersed themselves in conservative worldviews, if you like.

They know that space very well.

And we're going to explore together how to think about what is happening right now

and whether we can find new ways to bridge

and just to have wiser, more connected conversations.

With me, first of all, Gretchen Carson, who has spent like a decade working at Fox News,

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