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Martin Gurri says that a new wave of media in the 21st-century has eroded the legitimacy of political authority around the world.
What does this “Fifth Wave” mean for democracy? Is this a change libertarians should feel good about? Will it lead to more freedom?
Show Notes and Further Reading
Martin Gurri, The Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium (book)
A selection from the book is available here: “How a Tsunami of Information Inspired the Revolt of the Public”
James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (book)
Martin Gurri blogs at The Fifth Wave.
Martin Gurri is president and chief analyst at Fifth Wave Analytics. Previously he worked as an analyst and manager at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence’s Open Source Center.
Aaron Powell founded Libertarianism.org. He is now the host of (Re)Imagining Liberty, a podcast about the case for radical freedom.
Trevor Burrus was a research fellow in the Cato Institute’s Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies and editor-in-chief of the Cato Supreme Court Review. His research interests include constitutional law, civil and criminal law, legal and political philosophy, legal history, and the interface between science and public policy.
He is the editor of A Conspiracy against Obamacare (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013) and Deep Commitments: The Past, Present, and Future of Religious Liberty (Cato, 2017). Burrus holds a BA in philosophy from the University of Colorado at Boulder and a JD from the University of Denver Sturm College of Law. He also contributed a chapter to Libertarianism.org’s Visions of Liberty.