Are We in an Age of Rage?
As a writer for Time magazine, Lev Grossman is all too familiar with the phenomenon of angry Internet comments, even if it takes some time to decode them. “It took me weeks just to find someone who could tell me what the words meant,” he joked with the audience at The Actors’ Gang. “They were so extreme I’d never heard them before.” Dick Meyer, editorial director of digital media for NPR and author of Why We Hate Us, had a tip for him: “They probably refer to one or two …
