It started in hippie garages with people like the Whole Earth Catalog’s Stewart Brand: the promise of more freedom for more voices. Today the tech billionaires see democracy as the anti-Christ. Now ask yourself: has Apple computers liberated you? Irresponsible social media has supplanted actual journalism, “spreading the sewage of misinformation” according to today’s guest; the New Republic’s Timothy Noah and we are the worse for it. What’s emerged from a hopeful beginning is now classic monopoly behavior, from being anti-government to being the defacto government. Give a listen if you dare.