Rana Foroohar’s new book, ‘Don’t Be Evil,’ paints an alarming portrait of Silicon Valley tech companies that need to be reined in before they start to affect our lives in even more insidious ways. In 1998, in an academic paper titled “The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine,”…

For too long Americans have embraced a consumer identity and mindset. Its time to reclaim citizenship. Earlier this year, The Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State at The University of Chicago Booth School of Business issued a report on digital platforms and an accompanying policy…

RBG’s seat might not be reason enough to vote for Trump again. But stopping a Democratic president from packing the courts might be. The death of Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia on February 13th, 2016 and Senate majority leader Mitch McConnel’s subsequent refusal to consider President Obama’s replacement for Scalia…

Jefferson Bethke’s new book puts a proper emphasis on the importance of Sabbath. In his new book To Hell With Hustle, YouTube sensation and writer Jefferson Bethke, identifies an “ethos of hustle injected into us all at birth” and the noise, fame, work, and tribalism that have overtaken the lives…

Cities have the progressive pedigree, precedent, and power to ban targeted advertising. In his 2016 book, The Attention Merchants, law professor and tech scholar Tim Wu tells the story of Paris in the 1860’s and the brightly colored posters — first introduced by Jules Cheret — that came to dominate…

A review of Suketu Mehta’s latest book. Suketu Mehta is angry. He is angry about the depiction of immigrants in America today. Mehta, an author who immigrated to the U.S. when he was fourteen, admits as much in his new book, This Land is Our Land: An Immigrant’s Manifesto. Indeed…

All three have taken a hit over the last two decades. It could be said that there are at least three pillars of western civilization, those being capitalism, democracy, and Christianity. While everyone in the west might not agree with or even be fond of any or all of these…

Jesus’ first miracle was always hard for me to accept. For as long as I can remember I’ve had a complicated relationship with wine. At the age of thirteen, when it was my turn to serve as acolyte and help distribute communion, my parents gave me a firm warning: make…

If social media or smartphones are the new smoking, what’s the new secondhand smoking? In 1986, two decades after the surgeon general report that was a pivotal turning point in the decline of the cultural acceptance of smoking, another surgeon general report was released detailing the significant harm caused by…