Articles 2024
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Trump isn’t just campaigning. He’s selling his supporters a glamorous life.
The Washington Post, March 18, 2016
Conventional explanations miss the glamour of Trump’s message.
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Why Nobody's Wearing Wearables
Bloomberg View, March 03, 2016
Wearable tech still needs its graphical user interface, its browser, its broadband, its VisiCalc, its Google, its Amazon: the enabling technologies and unique benefits that make it essential and easy to use.
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Pictures Deserve 'Fair Use' Protection, Too
Bloomberg View, February 11, 2016
A ridiculous New York Times copyright suit could turn out to be good news for commentators on our image-saturated culture — if it gets to court.
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Pictures That Are Worth a Thousand Data Points
Bloomberg View, January 28, 2016
Using smart phones to collect grassroots economics data
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In 'Joy,' Hollywood Lets Entrepreneurship Smile
Bloomberg View, January 08, 2016
How do you get a heroic entrepreneur as the protagonist of a big-budget, award-friendly Hollywood film? Make her a woman.
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Democracy's Destabilizer: TMI
Bloomberg View, December 28, 2015
Information used to be scarce. Now it’s overwhelming. In his book “The Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium,” Gurri considers the political implications of this change. He argues that the shift from information scarcity to abundance has destroyed the public’s established trust in institutional authorities, including media, science, religion, and government.
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Progressive and Racist. Woodrow Wilson Wasn't Alone.
Bloomberg View, December 08, 2015
Black student protesters are demanding that Princeton take Woodrow Wilson's name off the university's public policy school and a residential college. A new work of intellectual history coincidentally published by Princeton University Press and written by a Princeton faculty member offers a compelling -- though implicit -- case that Wilson’s name is ideally suited for the public-policy school but deeply ironic for the residential college. It also reveals the largely forgotten intellectual origins of many current controversies, including disputes over tightening voter identification laws, raising the minimum wage and restricting immigration.
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Heard Bad Things About Yik Yak? Try Using It
Bloomberg View, November 13, 2015
Yik Yak is a social-media app that in just two years has become an everyday part of the American college experience. If you’ve heard of it, chances are you think it’s awful. It has a terrible reputation as a dangerous source of vitriol, threats and ethnic slurs. What I found when I took a look at it astonished me.
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Responding to "The Lure of Luxury"
Boston Review, November 02, 2015
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Hollywood Gives Its Black Geek a Promotion
Bloomberg View, October 21, 2015
Hollywood loves to show black geeks, as long as they don't have backstories or personal lives. Malcolm Arakanbe to protagonist of the delightful teen movie "Dope," is not that kind of geek.