#1649: Sorry To Burst Your Bubble
This week, Baratunde Thurston and Tanner Colby are joined by ESPN’s Latoya Peterson and The New Republic’s Sarah Jones to discuss what information, cultural, and political bubbles mean, and whether it’s even a good idea to try to break out of them.
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Bubbles and Echo Chambers
Progressive fundamentalism: how Hollywood and the media fortify the bubbles we all live in | Vox
Revenge of the Forgotten Class | ProPublica
Democrats may be trading strength in small-town America for support in big-city suburbs | Slate
I'm a Coastal Elite From the Midwest: The Real Bubble is Rural America | RollCall
After this vote the UK is diminished, our politics poisoned | The Guardian
Does Jack Dorsey Use Twitter? | New York Magazine
A Brookings / PRRI Study Finds Most American Christians Believe They're Victims of Discrimination | The Atlantic
But What If We're Wrong?: Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past by Chuck Klosterman
RecommendationsLatoya
A Cyborg Manfiesto by Donna Haraway
Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature by Donna Haraway
Jennifer Government by Max Barry
TannerThe End of White Christian America by Robert P. Jones
SarahWhite Trash by Nancy Isenberg
The Californian Ideology by Richard Barbrook and Andy Cameron
Imbeciles: The Supreme Court, American Eugenics, and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck by Adam Cohen
BaratundeMasha Gessen (Twitter)
Autocracy: Rules for Survival
Trump: The Choice We Face
The Glass Room (NYC Privacy Popup)
Go to The Glass Room. If Black Mirror Had a Showroom, This Would Be It by Baratunde