Quantifying Love

Reputational currency, like China’s Social Credit Score, rebrands repression as rational nudging. And these algorithmic governance models are spreading.

Will Amazon Take Over the World?

What the rise of megaplatforms means for the rest of us.

Response to Saving Privacy

The real problem is the blurring of military and police power.

Big Finance’s Best Friend

The Wall Street Apologetics of Robert Shiller

Names, Trains, and Corporate Deals

Why Public Transit Shouldn’t Sell Naming Rights

Digital Culture Wars

Contemporary American politics privileges policing and punishment, while marginalizing the arts and the commons.

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