About
William Galston is the Ezra K. Zilkha Chair in Governance Studies and Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. He is the author of eight books and more than one hundred articles on questions of political and moral philosophy, American politics, and public policy. His most recent book is Public Matters: Politics, Policy, and Religion in the 21st Century.
The unending high-decibel partisan warfare has led many Americans to look back with nostalgia to the old consensual, if muddled party systems.