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Wednesday, November 7, 2007 12:00 AM

The Internet is making us stupid

Legal sage Cass Sunstein says democracy is the first casualty of political discourse in the digital age.
By Ben Van Heuvelen

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  • Tuesday, November 6, 2007 09:57 PM

    The internet has caused political polarization?

    How about flagrant political pardons, torture of detainees, suspension of habeus corpus, voter suppression, an unprecedented Supreme Court intervention in a national election, and a disastrous war yielding horrors not seen since the Cambodian genocide.

    And you're telling me, that the INTERNET is to blame?!

    The fallacy that citizens across the ideological spectrum are responsible for the moral/political atrocities of the past seven years is beyond insulting.

    Stick to the law, Mr. Sunstein.

    —Antonym Read Antonym's other letters

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