Talks & Entertainment

We all feel it—the distractions and the addictive focus on the wrong things for too long. We stare in pity at the people in the restaurant, all on their phones, and then we feel the buzz in our pocket. Something has changed: for most of human history, the boundary between public and private has been clear, at least in theory.  

In The Sirens’ Call: How Attention Became the World’s Most Endangered Resource, MSNBC host Chris Hayes argues that we are in the midst of an epoch-defining transition where attention has become a commodified resource extracted from us, and from which we are increasingly alienated. He presents a wide-angle 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, and offers how we can wrest back control of our lives and our future. 

Hayes is the Emmy Award–winning host of “All In with Chris Hayes” and the New York Times bestselling author of  A Colony in a Nation and Twilight of the Elites.  

Hayes will be in conversation with Jen Psaki, host of MSNBC’s “Inside with Jen Psaki” and former White House Press Secretary. Psaki is the author of the New York Times bestseller, Say More: Lessons from Work, the White House, and the World.

All books will be pre-signed by the author. A limited number of tickets include access to a post-event signing for those who would like their name added to their book.