Advertisement'New Yorker' Writer Fears We're Fooling Ourselves In The Internet's 'Trick Mirror'August 06, 2019Terry GrossfacebookEmailWhen she was growing up, New Yorker culture writer Jia Tolentino attended a Houston megachurch with her family. "The population was extremely white and wealthy, which my family was not," Tolentino says. "It was the kind of place where you had a daily Bible class from first grade 'till senior year." (C. Elena Mudd)