Facing the Fracture

This book is a masterclass for every American exhausted by toxic division and looking for a way out. Dr. Israel offers a refreshingly even-handed look at the challenge and empowers us with practical tools that quickly build resilience, strength, confidence, and hope.

~ Pearce Godwin - Founder of Listen First Project and the #ListenFirst Coalition of 500+ organizations bridging divides

If you're feeling overwhelmed and even hopeless about our divided nation, don't give up: Read Facing the Fracture! Tania Israel's level-headed, evidence-based ideas will leave you empowered and inspired, with a clear set of practical strategies for strengthening your family, community, and country.

~Jason Marsh, Executive Director and Editor in Chief, The Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley

Facing the Fracture guides us toward a future when Americans can be more emotionally fortified, interpersonally skilled, and profoundly optimistic about our country. This important book provides a road map of personal empowerment helping us overcome the stresses and challenges of our deeply polarized times. 

~ Jamie Metzl, Founder and Char, One Shared.World, author of Hacking Darwin: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Humanity, and Superconvergence: How the Genetics, Biotech, and AI Revolutions Will Transform Our Lives, Work, and World 

Facing the Fracture addresses the dilemma every sentient being wrestles with...how do we disagree with others without losing our minds? Wise, informed, open-hearted and revelatory, Tania Israel is on to something big. We're not as different as we think!

~ Alan Watt, bestselling author of Diamond Dogs and The 90-Day Novel, founder of L.A. Writers Lab

Enlightening, empowering and thoroughly entertaining! In helping us control what we're confronted with, become resilient to it, and react meaningfully to it, Tania Israel offers clever insights, frequent grins, and the exact tool we desperately need right now. Above all, though, she gives us hope.

~ Starshine Roshell, award-winning journalist, media-literacy advocate

At a moment of extreme division and polarization, Dr. Israel provides practical insights into how we can find our common humanity with those we disagree with. As a Gen-Z member, I can confidently state that young people are looking to lead with empathy and hope- this book provides us with a great how-to guide.

~ Manu Meel, BridgeUSA Co-Founder and CEO, The Hopeful Majority podcast host

In this candid and courageous book, Tania Israel offers a blueprint for finding greater fulfillment and connection in polarized times. I strongly recommend this book to fellow academics, students, and others navigating conflict and division – it offers wisdom that we need right now.

~ Tenelle Porter, Assistant Professor, Rowan University, intellectual humility researcher

Tania Israel has provided us with a comprehensive and incredibly insightful understanding of polarization in our country. Readers of this treasure of a book will be informed, empowered and optimistic about one’s future and that of our nation. I strongly recommend this compelling and timely resource!

~Melba J. T. Vasquez, Ph.D, ABPP, Former President, American Psychological Association

We are all too aware of how political polarization is fracturing our lives, and how news avoidance threatens our civic duty. Psychologist Tania Israel offers us hope, and a road to engagement: she gives us original, practical ways of dealing with these issues in our day-to-day lives, and she provides a wealth of data debunking what we think we know about our fellow citizens. To find out more, you'll have to read her eye-opening book...and I strongly recommend you do!

~Deanna Lee, former head of communications for the Carnegie Corporation, The New York Public Library, and the Asia Society; former Sr Producer, ABC News

Although it feels like we are facing an impossible divide in this country, Tania Israel's new book offers an optimistic vision for navigating political hostility. She debunks myths about polarization and corrects our distorted perceptions, then lays out a scientific framework for opening minds and bridging divides.

~ Jay Van Bavel, Professor of Psychology, New York University, Author of The Power of Us

Worried about politics? You could duck and hide and hope it will blow over or you can read this book.

~ Lisa Swallow, Crossing Party Lines Co-Founder and Executive Director, author of Yes, You CAN Talk Politics

Many of us feel discouraged if not hopeless about bridging the gap with people who have opposing political opinions. Dr. Tania Israel has provided us with a gift in the form of a highly readable book that is simultaneously full of actionable tips that, when followed, increase the likelihood of beneficial conversations across political lines. I am so grateful to her and you will be too.

~ Adam Dorsay, PsyD, psychologist, host of the award-winning SuperPsyched podcast, and author of the upcoming book Super Psyched: Unleash the Power of the 4 Types of Connection and Live the Life You Love