shouting loudly

Eli Pariser, the former Executive Director of MoveOn, has a new book out on the social impacts of the internet.  It’s quite good – reminiscent of Cass Sunstein’s Republic.com and Infotopia, in that it is utterly readable, carefully constructed, and critical in tenor.  The important difference between Pariser’s book and Sunstein’s books is temporal in [...]

Some of you may have heard about how CUNY Trustee Jeffrey Weisenfeld’s slander of Pulitzer prize winner Tony Kushner kept Kushner from getting an honorary degree from John Jay. What hasn’t gotten enough traction, IMO, is that Weisenfeld is a straight-up bigot who considers Palestinians as not even human. This isn’t some quote taken out [...]