Facebook’s privacy failings are no accident
Remember Nudge? It was a 2008 book by Chicago economist Richard Thaler and Harvard Law professor Cass Sunstein, full of bright…
Seven Days in Entebbe and the nostalgia for 1970s terrorism
It was only Seven Days in Entebbe, but it felt like an eternity. The rescue in July 1976 by Israeli…
Democrats should look closer to home to find collusion with Russia
For Donald Trump, yesterday was a bad day to bury good news. While Rex Tillerson’s resignation as Secretary of State…
Tech companies are trusts that need to be busted
The World Wide Web is twenty-nine years’ old today, according to its Dr. Frankenstein, Sir Tim Berners-Lee. Or is that…
The course of American empire
These days, the political climes of the United States are deeply unhappy. The weather, as if endorsing the pathetic fallacy…
Donald Trump and the unreality of a two-state solution
The AIPAC conference, that annual celebration of the triangular romance between America, Israel and American Jews, concluded last night with…
The 2018 Oscars were indulgent, overlong, and weirdly amateurish — again
It was always going to be difficult for this year’s Oscars to balance politics and entertainment, the sweeping declaration with…
Oscars 2018: and the winners are…
Tomorrow night, TV viewers will take to their couches for a night of Hollywood glamour, razzmatazz and gross hypocrisy. A…
Bruce on Broadway – and out of touch
Bruce Springsteen promised that he was ‘Born To Run’, and now, like Judy Garland and Ethel Merman before him, he…
What do Walt Whitman, Jackson Pollock and Jimi Hendrix have in common?
On 3 September 1968, Allen Ginsberg appeared on William F. Buckley’s Firing Line. Buckley exposed Ginsberg’s politics as fatuous —…
