I’m at Attention: Freedom Interrupted, a conference at McGill University this week, an international conversation about information and democracy that brings together scholars, activists and… Read More »Freedom Interrupted: Electoral Interference
Joe Stiglitz is a bright guy. He won the Nobel for Economics in 2001 for his work on markets where information is asymmetric. He’s the… Read More »He’s not a neoliberal, “He’s a thug” – Stiglitz on Trump, in Montreal
This past November, I had the privilege of offering the closing keynote at CSCW 2024 – the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and… Read More »From WEIRD to Wide: my keynote at CSCW 2024 in Costa Rica
Danielle Allen is one of the great thinkers of our generation… by which I mean the GenX generation that teeters on the brink between hopelessness… Read More »Danielle Allen at UMass Amherst on “How to be a Confident Pluralist”
I tried to write this post from the last leg of my trip, between Utica, NY and Pittsfield, MA. I’ve been dictating posts as I… Read More »Roadtrip: Utica Starts With You
In 1999, a book called The Places Rated Almanac offered a ranking of American cities in terms of their desirability as places to live. There… Read More »Road trip: Peoria to Kankakee