Privacy, Kansas, City, Slave Ship, Five Things - Issue #191

A new study on surveillance finds that Republicans tend to feel pleased about tracking, both online and in real life, while Democrats often feel bad about it.

A native Kansan returns home to find that the broken promises of commodity agriculture have destroyed a way of life.

Getting lost in the text-cities of Joyce, Döblin, and Dos Passos.

Zora Neale Hurston’s searing book about the final survivor of the transatlantic slave trade, Cudjo Lewis, is being published nearly a century after it was written.

For decades, as the tech world passed him by, Doug Lenat has fed computers millions of rules for daily life. Is this the way to artificial common sense?

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