CSPAN2 National Book Festival - Author Conversation On Creating Community September 4, 2022
You take us on a broad romp through the world of ideas from the 17th century france to tahrir square, occupy wall street and the streets of indianapolis. You talk about the Network Effects that enable ideas to generate and build on each other in a way that is harder to do online where it is hard to get momentum out of a tweet or a post. Tell us a bit about the arguments you make in your book. The impetus for the book with a feeling that i had that social movements were we were seeing in our moments, social movements who burned very bright, briefly and then flare out. Sometimes they would leave...