The Evolution of Ideologies and Institutions

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The chapter explores the evolution of personal ideologies through reporting, touching on initial idealism and maturation. It discusses the entwined nature of Antifa and BLM movements, corporate funding shifts, and the mainstream acceptance of certain ideologies. The narrative delves into the challenges of establishing new media institutions and the importance of reforming existing ones in the current social and political landscape.

Yascha Mounk and Nellie Bowles discuss her career at The New York Times and reporting on the ground from urban “autonomous zones” in 2020.

Nellie Bowles is a writer and reporter and the head of strategy at The Free Press, where she writes the TGIF column. Her book is Morning After the Revolution: Dispatches from the Wrong Side of History.

In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Nellie Bowles discuss how she came to chafe against the institutional culture of The New York Times and why she left; how new power hierarchies arose within media and institutions where small groups came to wield outsized power; and how the transformative ideas about power and society that became dominant in 2020 continue to hold great influence.

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