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How America Got Divorced from Reality: Christian Utopias, Anti-Elitism, Media Circus | Kurt Andersen
How America Got Divorced from Reality: Christian Utopias, Anti-Elitism, Media Circus | Kurt Andersen
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#absolutely convinced that this place they’d never been was full of gold just to be plucked from the dirt in Virginia and they stayed there l#again for the last couple hundred years#America has always been a little bit crazy. It&039;s this kind of wide-eyed "anything can happen if you believe" mentality that#an off-Broadway theatrical revue that had long runs in New York and Los Angeles. He is a regular columnist for New York Magazine#and co-authored Loose Lips#and contributes frequently to Vanity Fair. He is also a founder of Very Short List. Andersen began his career in journalism at NBC&039;s To#and editor-in-chief of both New York and Spy magazines#and his latest non-fiction book Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History. He has written and produced prime-time network te#and is a member of the boards of trustees of the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum#and is currently Visionary in Residence at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. He lives with his family in New York City. ------------#Anti-Elitism#at its best#but especially in the last 50 years permeating all the rest of life#but then you look at this history and it’s... Read the full transcript at https://bigthink.com/videos/kurt-ande...#can produce incredible art. But at its worst#comparison#editorial director of Colors magazine#Environment#giving each of those realities#he wrote a weekly column on culture. And from 1996 through 1999 he was a staff writer and columnist for The New Yorker. He was a co-founder#host of Studio 360 on NPR#How America Got Divorced from Reality: Christian Utopias#I’m not going to trust the elite" from our character from the beginning. Now all those things came together and were super-charged in t#including Presidential politics from John F. Kennedy through Ronald Ragan to Bill Clinton. So the thing was set up for Donald Trump to explo#is a journalist and the author of the novels Hey Day#it can be cruel and conspiratorial. We live in a country where people refuse to believe vaccination can help you and where a White House is#Media Circus Watch the newest video from Big Think: https://bigth.ink/NewVideo Join Big Think Edge for exclusive videos: https://bigth.ink/E#no matter how false or magical or nutty they are#society had become split by two sides that refused to listen to each other. Back then#technology
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