Uploaded February 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
From the New York Times bestselling author and MSNBC host of All In with Chris Hayes comes a powerful reckoning with how the assault from attention capitalism on our minds and our hearts has reordered our politics and the very fabric of our society. We all feel it—the distraction, the loss of focus and the addictive focus on the wrong things for too long. Hayes argues that we are in the midst of an epoch-defining transition whose only parallel is what happened to labor in the nineteenth century: attention has become a commodified resource extracted from us and from which we are increasingly alienated.
From the New York Times bestselling author and MSNBC host of All In with Chris Hayes comes a powerful reckoning with how the assault from attention capitalism on our minds and our hearts has reordered our politics and the very fabric of our society. We all feel it—the distraction, the loss of focus and the addictive focus on the wrong things for too long. Hayes argues that we are in the midst of an epoch-defining transition whose only parallel is what happened to labor in the nineteenth century: attention has become a commodified resource extracted from us and from which we are increasingly alienated.
