Law professor, activist.
Fifty years ago today, copyright law in America changed fundamentally. That change was an accidental disaster for both creators and the culture they create.
Francesca Gino is a behavioral scientist. She was a tenured member of the Harvard Business School faculty. In July 2021, Data Colada notified HBS that it had identified anomalies in the data supportin…
With those words, uttered with bravado to an interviewer from Punchbowl last week, President Trump has effectively blown up his Super PAC. Not only could it not support him (were he to insist we live …
In 1896, the United States Supreme Court court-splained America about just what segregation meant. Laws mandating the separation of the races, the Supreme Court told us in Plessy v. Ferguson, “do no…
Sarah Wynn-Williams was a senior executive at Facebook. (You’ll remember, midway through the media storm created by Frances Haugen’s whistleblowing, Facebook changed its name to Meta, no doubt hop…
Almost exactly 20 years ago, a brilliant young social activist and technologist convinced me to give up my work on the Internet and copyright and to take up a fight against corruption. Aaron Swartz, w…
I’ve long been skeptical that we, as a people, can recover from the catastrophe we now face. Most think that catastrophe is Donald Trump. I certainly believe Donald Trump is a catastrophe, but the c…
For almost a year now, I’ve been unpacking the story of Harvard’s decision to remove the tenure of HBS professor Francesca Gino in a podcast. It’s taken a long time because I’m slow, because c…
I was recently asked to address the Democratic Policy Conference of the Senate. I can’t help but think I failed in that task. The topic for our session was corruption, though for some reason I thoug…
In the late spring of 1940, the German army broke through French lines, and the government in Paris collapsed. In its place arose a regime in the resort town of Vichy. The regime was led by Marshal Ph…
The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist (trailer), a new film by Daniel Roher, the Oscar-winning director of Navalny, opened this weekend in theaters across the United States. It is a brilliant …
It is endlessly easy to whip ourselves into a fury. Because so few imagined it would be this bad. The second Trump administration has been a catastrophe for America. Even if it ended today, it would t…
