Think Again

the humorist Robert Benchley
: “The Most Popular Book of the Month,” Vanity Fair, February
1920, 
babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?
id=mdp.39015032024203&view=1up&seq=203&q1=divide%20the%20world
.
a phrase from Walt Whitman
: Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, in Walt Whitman: The Complete
Poems, ed. Francis Murphy (London: Penguin Classics, 1855/2005).
“read less like a lawyer’s opening statement”
: Ripley, “Complicating the Narratives.”
Yet polls show bipartisan consensus
: Mike DeBonis and Emily Guskin, “Americans of Both Parties
Overwhelmingly Support ‘Red Flag’ Laws, Expanded Background Checks for Gun Buyers,
Washington Post–ABC News Poll Finds,” Washington Post, September 9, 2019,
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/americans-of-both-parties-overwhelmingly-support-red-flag-
laws-expanded-gun-background-checks-washington-post-abc-news-poll-
finds/2019/09/08/97208916-ca75-11e9-a4f3-c081a126de70_story.html
; Domenico Montanaro,
“Poll: Most Americans Want to See Congress Pass Gun Restrictions,” NPR, September 10, 2019,
www.npr.org/2019/09/10/759193047/poll-most-americans-want-to-see-congress-pass-gun-
restrictions
.
only 59 percent of Americans
: Moira Fagan and Christine Huang, “A Look at How People around
the World View Climate Change,” Pew Research Center, April 18, 2019,
www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/04/18/a-look-at-how-people-around-the-world-view-
climate-change
.
In the past decade in the United States
: “Environment,” Gallup,
news.gallup.com/poll/1615/environment.aspx
; “About Six in Ten Americans Think Global
Warming Is Mostly Human-Caused,” Yale Program on Climate Change, December 2018,
climatecommunication.yale.edu/wp-
content/uploads/2019/01/climate_change_american_mind_december_2018_1-3.png
.