What I've Learned About Social Media

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I think everybody who is a writer at this point has really internalized the sort of Greek chorus of Twitter or whatever you want to call it. When I talk with my students some of them say not all of them but a good number have told me that they don't really feel comfortable saying what they really think of their real opinions to most people on campus. That just seems like a really sad way to lead life it's a sad way to be a writer and if there's any point of being a writer it's to figure out what you think about the world and share it with people.

There is a lot of bad advice going around these days. If something bad happened to you, define yourself by your trauma. And if somebody inadvertently did something offensive, react as though they had intended to harm you. Emily Yoffe, a member of Persuasion's Board of Advisors and a contributing writer at The Atlantic, has spent years giving thoughtful advice and chronicling the strange turn in our culture. One of the country's best writers and most fearless reporters, she knows better than just about anyone else how to skewer the growing self-righteousness in our intellectual discourse.

In this week’s episode of The Good Fight, Yascha Mounk and Emily Yoffe sit down to discuss the hallmarks of cancelation, why intent matters, and how we can recover our capacity to converse freely.

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