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Claire Potter

Claire Potter is professor of History at the New School for Social Research, co-executive editor of Public Seminar, and the author of Political Junkies: From Talk Radio to Twitter, How Alternative Media Hooked us on Politics and Broke Our Democracy (Basic Books, 2020) which this essay is adapted from. You can tweet with her @TenuredRadical.


Articles by Claire Potter

August 2, 2020 5:09 am

Political Junkies Are Killing Our Democracy

How the #CovingtonBoys helped me understand where digital media went wrong.
Claire Potter