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Martin Gurri
- Weekend Reading: Readwise's Next Chapter, Reviewing Revolt of the Public, and the Helicopter State
📚 The Next Chapter of Readwise: Our Own Reading App Great to see this evolution of Readwise to enter the "read-later" app space. None of the options out there seem to be thriving anymore (Pocket, Instapaper, etc.), b…
- The Prophet of the Revolt
Of this year's reads so far, Martin Gurri still holds the crown on my favorite with his 2014 book The Revolt of the Public. That book has the best diagnosis of the current state of politics, the culture war, polarizat…
- Systems and Constraints
There are so many good little pieces in this brief interview with Alicia Juarrero, who studies complex systems and complexity theory. Three options are possible once a complex system reaches a threshold of instability…
- Martin Gurri on EconTalk
I've been following Gurri's work closely since I read The Revolt of a Public a couple months back. I think he's one of the sharpest minds we have right now thinking and writing about what's going on in politics, media…
- The Revolt of the Public in 10 Minutes
Author Martin Gurri posted this quick 10 minute summary of his book The Revolt of the Public. It was one of my favorite recent reads, and in this video he does an excellent job summarizing his key diagnosis of what's…
- How Elite Institutions Lost Their Legitimacy
A discussion between economist Arnold Kling and author Martin Gurri about the erosion of institutions and what that means for polarization and cultural instability. Martin Gurri doesn’t like to make predictions. But i…