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The Road to Year Zero #3 - Chait v. The Internet
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The Road to Year Zero #3 - Chait v. The Internet

The Spontaneous Origins of the Vertically Integrated Messaging Apparatus
Wesley Yang
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AJ Maro
Apr 18, 2022
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Today’s episode of the Road to Year Zero Podcast looks back at the publication of Jonathan Chait’s February 2015 New York Magazine cover story, NOT A VERY P.C. THING TO SAY, which both registered the recrudescence of political correctness and summoned up a response illustrative of a new balance of forces within media and affiliated institutions. I talk with Chait about that curious inflection point in the culture wars which was at once striking in its blessed innocence and prophetic of the world to come.

Discussed: Nicholas Christakis’s Struggle Session; the bien pensants respond to the Charlie Hebdo Massacre; the rise to ascendancy of Ta-Nehisi Coates

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The third episode of the Road to Year Zero looks back at the publication of Jonathan Chait’s February 2015 New York Magazine cover story, NOT A VERY P.C. THING TO SAY, which both registered the recrudescence of political correctness and summoned up a response illustrative of a new balance of forces within media and affiliated institutions. I talk with Chait about that curious inflection point in the culture wars which was at once striking in its blessed innocence and prophetic of the world to come…
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