At the Edges of American Political Culture People Are Tweeting Hard

Cal Newport is one among a select few voices (along with Douglas Rushkoff and Rishad Tobaccowala) currently speaking truths about modern media and culture that I pay particular attention to and I enjoy hearing from.

Newport is the author of seven books and an associate professor of computer science at Georgetown University. In his latest piece for The New Yorker, and in the wake of news that Elon Musk intends to buy the platform, he wonders if the framing of Twitter as the new town square is accurate?