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in 1978 people got news primarily from local newspapers and television stations, which often reported on the policies and votes made by the congresspeople who represented the area. Today, by contrast, twenty-four-hour cable news and social media focus disproportionately on national politics, whose figures are likely more familiar to many citizens t
... See moreEthan Zuckerman • Mistrust: Why Losing Faith in Institutions Provides the Tools to Transform Them
a large majority of Americans do not have consistent and reliable ideological beliefs.
Robert Faris • Network Propaganda: Manipulation, Disinformation, and Radicalization in American Politics
On the cultural pendulum swing and feminine black/white thinking
I write the most about leftist culture because I want to understand how we got here. The chain of causation could stretch back to the founding of America, but instead, I’ve been obsessed with the past 30 years. I don’t agree with most of what Trump is doing. I am worried, but I think h
... See morethe new credo was that everyone should look at the world through the eyes of an investor—that’s why, in the eighties, newspapers began firing their labor reporters, but ordinary TV news reports came to be accompanied by crawls at the bottom of the screen displaying the latest stock quotes.
David Graeber • The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy
politics
Charles Reich • The Greening of America
the three pillars of the present Republican coalition. First, the white-identity pillar, the intentional