Protest Infatuation and the 4th Wave of Democratization
Along with David Brooks, Jeffrey Goldberg, and Jad Abumrad, Kurt Anderson belongs to my select fraternity of idealized, intellectual American man-crush. So I was kinda, well, crushed when I read his cover story for this year’s Time Person of the Year. Like the...![[Inequality] A US – Latin America Middle Class Reversal?](https://i0.wp.com/davidsasaki.name/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Screen-Shot-2012-03-10-at-8.36.PM_.jpg?resize=489%2C411&ssl=1)
[Inequality] A US – Latin America Middle Class Reversal?
Last Sunday Jorge Castañeda wrote an opinion piece in the New York Times Sunday Review warning Americans what happens when a country doesn’t have a middle class. Yesterday he extended his argument in an hour-long interview with Tom Ashbrook. Castañeda argues...
El Coco is Gonna Get You
My problem is the following: I get to a point where I have 7 or 8 drafts of ambitious yet incomplete blog posts that, if my to-do list is to be believed, will ‘soon’ be published. But my to-do list is not to be believed, not ever. And so these drafts sit...
Too Much Information – Week Ending September 23
What follows is a hyperlinked version of the weekly newsletter of the Information Program of Open Society Foundations. Next week Becky Hogge will take up the newsletter one again. You can continue to follow new editions at her blog. News Global Open Government...
Interview with Zeynep Tufekci: Television, Internet, and the Expansion of Rights
Unlike two years ago, this year I won’t have the time to summarize all of the interesting presentations and discussions from the Ars Electronica Symposium. Isaac and I divided the day into two parts. In the morning, we focused on countries that had already...Latest Photos
