When Hayes met me on a frigid January afternoon at his stately, well-appointed townhouse in Park Slope, naturally my first thought was, Not one of us. Hayes wore dark slacks and a striped button-down shirt,

Chris Hayes is in the attention business, and it’s in trouble. “Public discourse is a now a war of all against all for attention,” the MSNBC host writes in The Sirens’ Call, which Penguin will publish on Tuesday.

MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell is joined by his fellow MSNBC host Chris Hayes to discuss the latter's fascinating and illuminating new book, "The Sirens' Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource.

I was looking for self-help advice in Chris Hayes’ “The Sirens' Call,” an examination of the system widely monopolizing our time and eroding our focus: the attention economy. In recent years, my attention has felt continually besieged by a barrage of information,