This chapter explores how social media has contributed to the decline of expertise and the spread of differing ideologies. It discusses the skepticism towards technocracy, the failures of the liberal cosmopolitan technocracy, and the rise of figures like Donald Trump challenging their authority.
Historian and author Walter Russell Mead of Bard College and the Hudson Institute talks with EconTalk's Russ Roberts about how innovation and religion can help us make sense of the current state of the world.