Today’s Political Polarization Harkens to 1500s: Printing Press, Protestant Reformation
Stanford University historian Niall Ferguson argues that today’s political polarization echoes the religious polarization of the Reformation. Both were brought about by technological disruption: The printing press, in the case of the Reformation; and the personal computer and internet, in the case of today.
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