In the first segment, Eleanor’s guest contends that overuse of social-media delivers not only diminished attention spans,

but also a diminished ability to understand other people, and thus greater intolerance to people perceived as “different.”

Then, in the second half of the program, what do federal actions such as the arrest and jailing of Mahmoud Khalil demonstrate about the difficulties of actually enforcing an individual’s constitutional rights?

She has a Substack channel called “the Middle Path.”

Chip Gibbons is Policy Director at Defending Rights and Dissent

(www.rightsanddissent.org), and is working on a book about FBI surveillance.