Commentary on how people live now. Technology and its effects, institutions and how they fail, and the cultural arguments worth having. Opinionated by design, because writing that hedges everything says nothing.
Behind the BookFour books ago I sat down to write about why Americans had stopped thinking. Each one dragged me somewhere I did not expect, and this is the book where all four of them meet.
Behind the BookI did not set out to write this book. I set out to understand what I was watching on YouTube, and the view counts were too high for it to be fringe.
Behind the BookMy grandfather would talk about what happened to him. The problem was that nobody wanted to listen, because the story made people uncomfortable, and people get tired of being uncomfortable.
Behind the BookA book that asks readers to examine their own prejudices has to go first. So the introduction is mine: what my parents taught me, what I believed for thirty years without testing it, and the club I was recruited into…
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