developing structures that encourage fairness, serendipity, deliberation, and diversity through a process of trial and error. The question of how we encourage, or even enforce, diversity in so-called open networks…
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her announcement would make me, her youngest, fly. I jumped around our apartment’s long hallways, and danced around the living room. I looked out the rickety window facing the projects…
Its Relation to the Unconscious, Sigmund Freud emphasized humor’s capacity to challenge authority and surpass the internal and external constraints of censorship, to surmount taboos. “The joke then represents a…
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China, he has to adapt to that environment, and adopt similar logic. You can write about a country without taking a stand, but you cannot write about a country without…
says. When Henry IV opted to follow Catholicism at a time of religious conflict in France, he ordered that the townspeople destroy the Protestant-owned chateau. The chateau started out as…
…in Benghazi as the rebel leadership. Not surprisingly, no mention was made of the French back-story. The Italian intelligence services, intent on preserving that country’s advantageously close relationship with Qaddafi,…
and economic order incentivizes short-term profits and rent-seeking throughout the economy? Even a beneficent elite would stand little chance against the myriad profit opportunities that tax breaks and privatization can…
sense, our wars are eerily like those pursued by European monarchs in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries: conflicts carried out by professional militaries and bands of mercenaries, largely at the…
world as a moral gymnasium built expressly to strengthen your character in occasionally leads you to think about your own confounded principles when you should be thinking about other people’s…
But I would much rather be in China today. Guernica: You mentioned that you haven’t seen your parents in twenty years. Have you been able to see any family? And…
year Shenzhen, China, was declared a Special Economic Zone, and roughly the time the Internet was being launched. You write extensively about SEZs and the Internet as infrastructural networks—do you…
phenomenal! If this is not what technology was invented for, then what was it invented for—besides porn? Guernica: Also what the Internet was invented for. Reza Aslan: The Internet has…
airplane. And if you look long enough, you might see the flimsy layer between life and death; one hoist and you’re over. When probed, Strauss publicly declared the Golden Gate…
pride. Then you enthusiastically collaborate. French police did the round up. It’s just very shameful, but you’ve got to face it. You have to talk about it. That certain snobbery…
form of indifference and a lack of courtesy, often between neighbors and residents in the same apartment building. To say hello or good morning when you meet a stranger acknowledges…
really should consider playing around with media.” I was like, “What do you mean?” He said, “You know, buy different kinds of paper. Buy different kinds of pens and fool…
speak English, mocking environmentalists as repressive zealots, and generally trying to denigrate progressive outlooks. Our segment, the producer said, would focus on a recent NBC news report praising the virtues…
in the battle. Frontline correspondence is extremely different from other, more ordinary types of journalism. When you are in the frontline you must be prepared and trained. Basically, you are…
“You are still a father, you wouldn’t be alright with your children coming to harm/This message comes from one of your children/ I’m telling you of suffering, people living like…
other favorite house—this would be the late twentieth century, not the twenty-first century—is the Miller House from José Oubrerie. José Oubrerie met a man named Mr. Miller who wanted Oubrerie…