It's moderate Democrats who find themselves in the very institutions where these things have taken grip.

A lot of my conservative friends are working at hedge funds or their own businesses,

and they kind of look at it like as like some form of

insanity that's taking place outside of their business, outside of their community.

They're somewhat insulated from it, but it's moderate Democrats who grew up with the usual

set of liberal assumptions in publishing academia the media all of those

institutions which have usually attracted a kind of a left-of-center employee

base that have really headed up to their necks because they say, hey, I'm a liberal. I've never voted for a

Republican. I believe in marriage equality. I believe in rights. And now all of a

sudden I'm unemployable on account of my race or I can't speak my mind because there isn't

really a free speech culture or any form of dissent from a prevailing

orthodoxy is likely to cost me, if not my job at least a promotion.

And there's where the rebellion, I think, is really brewing. Welcome to Call Me Back. Before we get into the introduction of our guest today, Brett

Stevens, I just have one housekeeping note. Our conversation with Tyler Cowan

in our last episode sparked quite a response. Some people loved

what he had to say, some people hated what he had to say, some people

although very few were in the middle but it was basically divided between techno-optimists and techno-peasimists.

And so for our next episode, we are going to have Dr. Christine Rosen on, who's a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute

and a columnist for Commentary magazine and is a regular on the critically acclaimed commentary magazine

podcast. And I would say she follows more

but not entirely but more in the techno pessimist camp I don't want to speak for

her but in that commentary podcast episode that was released the day our Tyler Cowan episode was released.

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