A few months ago, I invited Atlantic staff writer Charlie Worzel onto The David Frum Show.
As podcast hosts, we talked about the pressures and temptations of the medium.
Outrage often gets rewarded.
Nuance does not.
Charlie doesn't take that bait.
On his show Galaxy Brain, he covers the ways technology is changing how we think and how we live.
Not just the obvious stuff, but the subtle ways it shapes what we believe,
how we talk to each other, how we see ourselves and our neighbors.
If you've ever wondered how smart people end up believing implausible things online,
These ICE officers are swooping in out of nowhere,
in some cases trying to pin the vehicle of the person that they want to arrest.
And, you know, if they do this hundreds of times a day across the country in multiple cities,
it stands to reason that in some cases, the people thereafter are going to panic.
And if they panic and try to drive away...
Does that justify killing them?
And the answer is no, of course, but it points to the inherent risks of these kinds of tactics by ICE officers.
The recent killings of two men,
Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Texas and Yohan Sebastian Durin Guerrero in Maine by immigration officers,
have put the Department of Homeland Security back in the place that Secretary Mark Wayne Mullen was trying to avoid.
My goal in six months is that we're not in the lead story every single day.