“As a matter of historical analysis, the relationship between secrecy and privacy can be stated in an axiom: the defense of privacy follows, and never precedes, the emergence of new technologies for the exposure of secrets. In other words, the case for privacy always comes too late.”
“A curious thing about the United States is that anticommunism has always been far louder and more potent than communism.”
On Ephemerisle, a “floating festival of radical self-reliance,” and other attempts at creating an island utopia.
How the foreclosure crisis ignited a new form of activism in Chicago’s vacant homes.
On the blurry ethical lines in the part-time Texas state legislature, where politicians and CEO’s are one and the same.
