The Incoherent Revolutions of the 60s and 70s

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I think we're both old enough to remember 1968 in Czechoslovakia. There were mass movements really before the digital era. These are of a different nature, though. And what I take you to be saying is that they are incoherent. It's just a frustration that's coming.

Author Martin Gurri, Visiting Fellow at George Mason University's Mercatus Center, talks about his book The Revolt of the Public with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Gurri argues that a digital tsunami--the increase in information that the web provides--has destabilized authority and many institutions. He talks about the amorphous nature of recent populist protest movements around the world and where we might be headed politically and culturally.