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Jill Lepore and the cover of her Book "If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future"

“We Don’t Want the Program”: On How Tech Can’t Fix Democracy

“Start-ups: they need philosophers, political theorists, historians, poets. Critics.”
by Jill Lepore, Danah Boyd via Public Books on November 2, 2020

A Possible Majority

A political history of the present moment.
by Jedediah Britton-Purdy via Dissent on October 27, 2020
A screenshot from the movie "You've Got Mail."

The Romance of American Clintonism

The politically complacent ’90s produced a surprisingly large number of mainstream American rom-coms about fighting the Man.
by Meagan Day via Jacobin on October 21, 2020

YouTubers are Upscaling the Past to 4K. Historians Want Them to Stop.

YouTubers are using AI to bring history to life. But historians argue the process is nonsense.
by Thomas Nicholson via Wired on October 1, 2020
A graphic with web browsers open depicting lizard people, hooded satanists, Satan, Donald Trump, the jewish star, a bloody, blood being poured into a goblet, ritualistic candles, and an ominous well.

QAnon, Blood Libel, and the Satanic Panic

How the ancient, antisemitic nocturnal ritual fantasy expresses itself through the ages—and explains the right’s fascination with fringe conspiracy theories.
by Talia Lavin via The New Republic on September 29, 2020

The Forgotten Feminists of the Backlash Decade

The activists of the 1990s worked so diligently that they were written out of history.
by Maggie Doherty via The New Republic on September 24, 2020

Five Myths About the U.S. Postal Service

It’s not obsolete, and it’s not a business.
by Richard R. John via Washington Post on August 21, 2020

An Oral History of The Onion’s 9/11 Issue

Immediately after 9/11, humorists struggled with what many called ‘the death of irony.’ Then ‘The Onion’ returned and showed everyone the way
by Maria Schneider, Brian VanHooker, Robert Siegel, Todd Hanson, Mike Loew, Chad Nackers, Carol Kolb, Chris Karwowski, Tim Harrod, Mike Sacks, Nat Towsen, Joe Garden, Jim Romenesko via MEL on June 29, 2020
Sasha Geffen next to their book

Pop Music Has Always Been Queer

Sasha Geffen’s debut book reveals that the history of pop music is a history of gender rebellion.
by Tal Milovina via The Nation on April 8, 2020

The Noise of Time

What does the past sound like – and can listening to it help us understand history better?
by Sanjana Varghese via New Statesman on February 19, 2020

The Way We Write History Has Changed

A deep dive into an archive will never be the same.
by Alexis C. Madrigal via The Atlantic on January 21, 2020

How Silicon Valley Broke the Economy

The question of how to fix the tech industry is now inseparable from the question of how to fix late 20th century capitalism.
by Adrian Chen via The Nation on October 14, 2019

The Failed Political Promise of Silicon Valley

Tech was meant to help us transcend our most intractable problems. What went wrong?
by Kim Phillips-Fein via The New Republic on September 27, 2019

Andrew Yang and the Failson Mystique

America has already witnessed the largest UBI experiment known to history — the postwar middle-class housewife. And she was utterly miserable.
by Amber A'Lee Frost via Jacobin on September 19, 2019
Open books.

InterLibrary Loan Will Change Your Life

A brief history (and celebration) of the apex of human civilization.
by Nick Ripatrazone via Literary Hub on August 7, 2019
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Was E-mail a Mistake?

Digital messaging was supposed to make our work lives easier and more efficient, but the math suggests that meetings might be better.
by Cal Newport via The New Yorker on August 6, 2019
Senators Joseph McCarthy and Kenneth Wherry.

Democracy and Misinformation

The Cold War and today.
by Jennifer M. Miller via Perspectives on History on June 10, 2019
Neo-Nazis hold flags during a National Socialist Movement rally at Greenville Street Park in Newnan, Georgia, on April 21, 2018.

On the Rise of “White Power”

The author of a book on paramilitary white supremacy discusses the methods and ethics of researching racial violence.
by Kathleen Belew, Monica Muñoz Martinez via Public Books on April 19, 2019

Plug in Your Address to See How It's Changed Over the Past 750 Million Years

You can hone in on a specific location and visualize how it has evolved between the Cryogenian Period and the present.
by Meilan Solly via Smithsonian on February 15, 2019

Finding Lena, the Patron Saint of JPEGs

In 1972, a photo of a Swedish Playboy model was used to create the JPEG. The model herself was mostly a mystery—until now.
by Linda Kinstler via Wired on January 31, 2019

100 Years Later, Dearborn Confronts the Hate of Hometown Hero Henry Ford

Dearborn, proud home of Henry Ford, has addressed the auto pioneer's anti-Semitism in the 1920s, which flourishes today on extremist websites.
by Bill McGraw via Deadline Detroit on January 24, 2019
"The Age of Surveillance Capitalism" book cover

Thieves of Experience: How Google and Facebook Corrupted Capitalism

By reengineering the economy and society to their own benefit, Google and Facebook are undermining personal freedom and corroding democracy.
by Nicholas Carr via Los Angeles Review of Books on January 15, 2019

An Alternative History of Silicon Valley Disruption

Three recent books challenge the tech industry's myths of self-reliance and prescience.
by Nitasha Tiku via Wired on October 22, 2018
President Richard Nixon prepares to go on television May 23, 1970 in the Oval Office.

Trump is Not the First GOP President to Try to Make the Media ‘Fair’

Conservatives love rules about political balance — when they’re in charge.
by Nicole Hemmer via Washington Post on August 29, 2018

The World’s Most Peculiar Company

How does Hammacher Schlemmer, famous for such eccentric products as the Navigable Water Park, continue to survive in the age of Amazon?
by Nick Greene via Chicago Magazine on August 1, 2018
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Why We Need Government to Safeguard Against the New Robber Barons

Competition among media companies is crucial to democracy.
by Gregory Church via Made By History on July 31, 2018

The Rare Women in the Rare-Book Trade

When most people hear the term rare books, they imagine an old boys’ club of dealers seeking out first editions, mostly by men.
by Diane Mehta via The Paris Review on July 5, 2018

When Did TV Watching Peak?

It’s probably later than you think, and long after the internet became widespread.
by Alexis C. Madrigal via The Atlantic on May 30, 2018

Joking Aside, Rube Goldberg Got Tech Right

Goldberg's ridiculous contraptions demonstrated his canny understanding of the limits of invention.
by Ben Marks via Collectors Weekly on March 30, 2018

Before Net Neutrality, There Was Radio Regulation

How today's media landscape was shaped by a 1920s decision to privilege corporate broadcasters over noncommercial ones.
by Livia Gershon, Robert W. McChesney via JSTOR Daily on December 11, 2017
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