Pointing at the Wrong Villain: Cass Sunstein and Echo Chambers

David Weinberger on the problems of Cass R. Sunstein's "#Republic: Divided Democracy in the Age of Social Media."...

Pointing at the Wrong Villain: Cass Sunstein and Echo Chambers David Weinberger on the problems of Cass R. Sunstein's "#Republic: Divided Democracy in the Age of Social Media." By David Weinberger July 20, 2017 Law Politics Science & Technology #Republic by Cass R. Sunstein . Princeton University Press , 2017. 328 pages. Buy on Bookshop.org Did you know LARB is a reader-supported nonprofit? LARB publishes daily without a paywall as part of our mission to make rigorous, incisive, and engaging writing on every aspect of literature, culture, and the arts freely accessible to the public. Help us c

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