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The Vampire Economy: How Private Equity is Sucking the Blood out of the American Dream
It all began in 2019 at DeadSpin where Megan Greenwell was editor-in-chief. She had her dream job at the sports publication she'd always loved, leadi…
1 year, 4 months ago
The Company That Ate the Web: Google's Quarter Century Journey from Bridge Builder to Web Destroyer
25 years after serving as the bridge between the Web 1.0 and 2.0 revolutions, Google stands at the vortex of another technological revolution. The co…
1 year, 4 months ago
Long Live the NO KING: An Anti-Fascist Handbook on How to Resist Trump
Happy NO KINGS DAY! Today, as nationwide protests sweep America, historian and activist Mark Bray argues that Trump and his MAGA movement represent a…
1 year, 4 months ago
An Existential Threat to American Freedom: Spike Cohen on Donald Trump's Betrayal of Libertarianism
So what, exactly, is libertarianism? Spike Cohen, the Libertarian Party's 2020 vice presidential nominee, boils it down to "the principle of human re…
1 year, 4 months ago
American Fascism: If You Close Your Eyes It Won't Go Away
According to Deborah Baker, author of Charlottesville: An American Story, America has become the Charlottesville of the Unite the Right Rally of Augu…
1 year, 4 months ago
Postmodern Patrimonialism: Trump's Everything-Everywhere-All-At-Once Strategy as a Venture Capital Model of Politics
Postmodern Patrimonialism. That’s the term Brookings Institution scholar Jonathan Rauch uses to describe Trump's second presidency, arguing it repres…
1 year, 4 months ago
Beyond Left and Right: The Libertarian Vision of Freedom in America
FreedomFest, America’s annual celebration of libertarian values, begins tomorrow in Palm Springs. According to FreedomFest’s CEO Valerie Durham, ther…
1 year, 4 months ago
The Empire Strikes Back: Karen Hao on OpenAI as a Classic Colonial Power
Karen Hao has been warning us about Sam Altman’s OpenAI for a while now. In her bestselling Empire of AI, she argues that the Silicon Valley startup …
1 year, 4 months ago
We Get the Non-Fiction We Deserve: From AI Empires to Wokeness Critiques to a Year Without Sex
Do we get the nonfiction we deserve? LATimes book critic Bethanne Patrick wrestles with this question through five new books that both mirror and add…
1 year, 4 months ago
Everything Is Possible, Nothing Is Inevitable: Why AI Might Be the Ultimate Scarcity Trap
Is the promise of AI abundance Silicon Valley’s biggest lie? That Was The Week publisher Keith Teare argues that while AI will inevitably reduce huma…
1 year, 4 months ago