Why social media is terrible for multiethnic democracies

I don’t see how we can ever trust each other again.” —NYU social psychologist Jonathan Haidt Polarization has defined American politics for several years now. More and more, it seems, Americans are divided over nearly every issue of import — race, immigration, terrorism, trade, social policy. The divisions run deep and cut across a number of cultural fault lines. Jonathan Haidt is a social psychol