Category Archives: Andrew Marantz

Andrew Marantz: A Reporter Among the Talkers

Andrew Marantz writes for The New Yorker about people who change what other people think. He came to that subject through religion, which he studied at Brown from 2002 to 2006, and through literary nonfiction, which he studied at NYU … Continue reading

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Decoding Andrew Marantz

ChatGPT says: Andrew Marantz is not primarily explaining the internet or extremism. He is translating elite moral panic into a psychologically legible story that preserves elite legitimacy. His work turns political defection into character pathology and platform dynamics into moral … Continue reading

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#339 10-10-19 Antisocial: Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians By Andrew Marantz

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The Sailer Strategy

Andrew Marantz writes in chapter ten of his new book, Antisocial: Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation: A dozen years earlier, Steve Sailer, a prolific opinion columnist with a small but passionate online audience, had reached … Continue reading

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