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Have Our Screens Made Us Too Distracted For Democracy?

2025-08-21 · 65 min · episode 199 · 9 entities

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  • → hosted by Crooked Media company
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companys 6

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  • mentioned Crooked Media company
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    Feed author/publisher: Crooked Media
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    Feed category: Technology
  • discusses Technology company
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    Feed category: Technology
  • hosted by Audioboom company
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  • hosted by Crooked Media company
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    Feed author/publisher: Crooked Media

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  • mentioned Society & Culture concept
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  • discusses Society & Culture concept
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    Feed category: Society & Culture
  • discusses News concept
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Episode description as stored
Ben Rhodes—bestselling author, Pod Save the World co-host, and fellow Obama administration alum—joins Offline to explain how America is being torn apart by short-term thinking and the technology that stokes it. Ben recently wrote a piece for the New York Times on the topic, and he and Jon connect the dots between big tech, the attention economy and domestic dogmas, drawing on fifty years of foreign policy to explain how we got to a place where no one can focus on the worst of what Trump’s doing—let alone agree on a national narrative. For a closed-captioned version of this episode, click here . For a transcript of this episode, please email transcripts@crooked.com and include the name of the podcast.