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The connection between the rise of social media and the decline of American politics and society seems obvious. But what if what everybody knows is wrong?
A whole bunch of people over the last month have sent me Jonathan Haidt's essay in The Atlantic, "Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid," and asked for my thoughts. Haidt's basic premise is that the problem is social media. It's more complex and nuanced than that, and there are…