Technology
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Lost in the Super Market
Navigating the Digital Age
Foreword: Governing After a Revolution
The biggest tech challenges for policymakers go far beyond “Big Tech.”
Remaking the Modern Market
Gig workers deserve fair labor markets that private platforms cannot provide.
Reclaiming Self-Rule in the Digital Dystopia
Attention-harvesting technologies jeopardize our capacity to govern concentrated power—and ourselves.
Selling the Digital Soul
The use and abuse of personal data pose a collective challenge that cannot be solved by individuals.
News & Commentary
Curtailing big tech requires much more than breaking it up
FINANCIAL TIMES—American Compass executive director Oren Cass makes the case for disaggregating the Big Tech debate and giving greater focus to the digital age’s novel challenges.
On the Commons
Justice Thomas, Countervailing Power, and Big Tech
In a non-binding concurrence, Justice Clarence Thomas (joined by no other justices), argued that social media platforms could be labeled “common carriers,” and...
Reclaim Democracy From Technocracy
Our present predicament, characterized as it by an emboldened and rapacious post-U.S. Capitol siege Big Tech edifice all too eager to dutifully serve...
Let’s Stop Scaring People About Technological Change
If you’re an average working person, going about your life, trying to put the next meal on your table, and happen to listen...