Essay in Politico

I've been thinking a lot about what shapes the way we communicate, so I wrote this piece for Politico.

"The way to undermine a democracy, the Russians have reminded us, is to destabilize a common sense of reality and decency so that we can’t trust facts or each other, or use reason to debate issues based on those facts, which leaves us to trust only our own clans. And that leaves us with tribalism."