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With each new technology there are challenges the difference with this one is how

intrusive it is how big data has allowed social media to infiltrate our lives and essentially organize us for ourselves.

They're not ideologically driven.

They're driven by algorithms and the inspiration of those algorithms is to shove us into our silos in which our

views are sometimes informed but always affirmed and everybody outside the silo is alien and

threatening and one of the concerns I have

is how do we overcome that.

And now the good fight with Yasha Monk. As I mentioned last week I will spend the next three upsets of this podcast

using my spiel at the beginning to walk you through the argument in my new

new book, the identity trap a story of ideas and power in our time.

In the first part of the book, I try to understand where the set of ideas about race and gender and sexual orientation

that came to be so influential on college campuses in the United States

...