Status Updates From American Contradiction: Rev...

Interesting counterpoint to the “Anxious Generation”: social media didn’t cause polarization, that had already happened by the late 1980s with the advent of the “religious right” counterrevolution to civil rights and people like Rush Limbaugh and Newt Gingrich. Social media merely amplified the polarization by forcing engagement on people, which led to people picking a side.

Economic analysis is a bit superficial. Positions 90s as pivotal turning point for our deeply and closely divided politics today.

The characterization of the different modes of the civil rights movement is remarkably clear-eyed and analytically sharp.