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The Sirens' Call How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource

Chris Hayes

The #1 We all feel it—the distraction, the loss of focus, the addictive focus on the wrong things for too long. Something has changed utterly: For most of human history, the boundary between public and private has been clear, at least in theory. Now, as Chris Hayes writes, “With the help of a few t...

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The Ezra Klein Show

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The Ezra Klein Show

The book was highlighted as a key framework for understanding how social media shapes political attention, especially in analyzing the Mamdani campaign. Ezra Klein invited Chris Hayes, who explained the book’s relevance to modern electoral strategies. The discussion praised the work as a phenomenal analysis of attention in politics.

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Episode: Mamdani, Trump and the End of the Old Politics

Chris Hayes discussed his book about how social media shapes political attention, using it as a framework for analyzing the Mamdani campaign. He highlighted its relevance to modern electoral strategies.

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I asked my friend Chris Hayes, an MSNBC anchor and the author of a phenomenal book on attention to politics, The Siren's Call, to join me.

You just wrote a book about political attention.

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