
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or


We’ve heard a lot about the loneliness epidemic in this country, but it might be worth asking: Do we even like spending time with people anymore? Derek Thompson, staff writer at The Atlantic, joins host Krys Boyd to discuss the phenomenon where we’re on our phones but digitally surrounded by people, and how this isolation is rewiring us to be more anti-social – including in both our personal relationships and political lives. His article is “The Anti-Social Century.”
By KERA4.7
890890 ratings
We’ve heard a lot about the loneliness epidemic in this country, but it might be worth asking: Do we even like spending time with people anymore? Derek Thompson, staff writer at The Atlantic, joins host Krys Boyd to discuss the phenomenon where we’re on our phones but digitally surrounded by people, and how this isolation is rewiring us to be more anti-social – including in both our personal relationships and political lives. His article is “The Anti-Social Century.”

90,931 Listeners

21,957 Listeners

43,815 Listeners

32,007 Listeners

38,493 Listeners

6,812 Listeners

43,563 Listeners

9,181 Listeners

3,981 Listeners

1,010 Listeners

7,702 Listeners

6,405 Listeners

344 Listeners

4,659 Listeners

16,362 Listeners