“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.”
Politics
Tuesday, June 11
New York Review of Books
May 2013
“A curious thing about the United States is that anticommunism has always been far louder and more potent than communism.”
Monday, June 10
Sunday, June 9
Friday, June 7
N+1
Jun 2013
On Ephemerisle, a “floating festival of radical self-reliance,” and other attempts at creating an island utopia.
Monday, June 3
Thursday, May 30
Wednesday, May 29
New York Times Magazine
May 2013
How the foreclosure crisis ignited a new form of activism in Chicago’s vacant homes.
Thursday, May 23
Tuesday, May 21
Texas Tribune
May 2013
On the blurry ethical lines in the part-time Texas state legislature, where politicians and CEO’s are one and the same.
