The Trend to Negativity in the Digital Age

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There was a code that sports writers didn't reveal the behavior of athletes off outside the playing field, or of presidents in the case of the media. And now every embers naked, you could argue. I'm not sure how much of that has to do with the digital age. It's a trend that started well before it.

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.