Mary Harrington

Mary Harrington

New essay: The King And The Swarm

The digital revolution is really a putsch

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Mary Harrington
Jul 14, 2025
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I’m immensely grateful to the support of First Things in enabling me to spend time on this new, extended essay exploring the cognitive side-effects of the digital revolution within wider politics and culture. In it, I argue that what was greeted by early tech utopians as an extension of the print revolution, with its attendant assumptions concerning fre…

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