Habermas covers a lot of topics. He was part of the Frankfurt School when they were active. The Frankfurt School were very interesting and worth looking into. What I like about Habermas is his critique of how the legal system, the economy, and modern bureaucracies have become overgrown, autonomous and self-referential and now crowd out basic human communication and social life. It's a helpful lens for understanding a lot of the alienation we see today.

Anyone here appreciate Habermas? Is there an active subreddit or forum that discusses his work (possibly in a larger context)?

The histogram makes it tempting to draw the conclusion in the title. But we have a correlation v. causation question to work through before we can properly draw it.