Democrats, Data Commons, 1930s, Epistocracy, Kindle Unlimited - Five Things - Issue #269

After victories by progressive candidates in New York, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Maryland, young liberals are trying to remake the party into a ferocious opposition force.

Before, and after? A theme of my writing over the past ten or so years has been the role of data in society. I tend to frame that role anthropologically: How have we adapted to this new element in our society? What tools and social structures have we created in response to its emergence as…

The continuing decline of liberal democracies in Europe and the U.S. forces us to confront an unsettling question: is the world facing a return to the 1930s?

A political theorist’s provocative idea for how to fix democracy.

The e-commerce giant has finally made self-publishing lucrative. But does its dominance come at a cost?

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