{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Summer of Our Discontent: Thomas Chatterton Williams with Jonathan Haidt","description":" The Atlantic\u2019s Thomas Chatterton Williams joins #1 New York Times-bestselling social psychologist Jonathan Haidt (The Anxious Generation) for a searching conversation about the evolution, paradoxes, and taboos of American social justice movements in the years since 2020 \u2014 and Williams\u2019 bracing new book, Summer of Our Discontent. In this sharp and unsettling work, Thomas Chatterton Williams \u2014 among the most incisive social critics of his generation \u2014 examines a culture transformed by the upheavals of the pandemic, the murder of George Floyd, and the rise of punitive social media. He traces how well-intentioned movements reshaped journalism, education, the arts, policing, and even the language we use to make sense of the world \u2014 often in ways that have unintentionally frayed the shared civic fabric that once held us together. In this reading and conversation, Williams and Haidt \u2014 two of today\u2019s most fearless and provocative thinkers \u2014 wrestle with the aftershocks of the summer of 2020, the threats to liberalism from both left and right, and what renewal might require. \u201cMass insanity broke out among America\u2019s elites in the summer of 2020, with devastating consequences for America\u2019s knowledge-creating institutions. Thomas Chatterton Williams is one of the few intellectuals who stood firm and made the case with great courage for liberal values and the free exchange of ideas.\u201d \u2014 Jonathan Haidt \u201cThomas Chatterton Williams uses a fiercely probing intelligence, instinctively dissatisfied with absolutist explanations, to explore without ideological blindfolds what happened in one momentous summer.\u201d \u2014 Adam Gopnik ","author_name":"92NY Talks","author_url":"https:\/\/www.92ny.org\/archives\/featured-series\/talks-podcast","html":"