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The old Democratic party doesn't fit new media
["One Third of a Nation," by O. Louis Gugliemi, from the Met Collection]A few months back, I argued that political scientists should read Chris Hayes' fantastic book, The Siren's Call, and Chris's subsequent conversation with Ezra Klein, to understand the relationship between the attention economy a
The AI democracy debate is weirdly narrow
[Cartoon of bewildering 18th century democratic controversies, courtesy of the Met]Hahrie Han and I have a new paper, which has just been published by the Knight First Amendment Institute. We contend that when people in the AI debate talk about democracy, they usually do so in strangely limited ways
The Rich Are Not Like You and Me
I was on the Paul Krugman show yesterday and it was good (for "talking about how the world is swirling down the pipeline" values of good). Paul's tastes and mine in science fiction shaped the conversation - on a different timeline I could imagine a 'here's how this SF writer's ideas explain the head