‘Mood Machine’ gets Spotify wrong
Critiques of technology often downplay, deny, or ignore the advantages that tech firms offer to their users. Take Mood Machine, Liz Pelly's book assailing the audio streaming giant Spotify. Some of Spotify's…
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‘Girl on Girl’ book explores sexualization in media
In Girl on Girl, Sophie Gilbert of The Atlantic examines cultural artifacts from the 1990s and 2000s, tracing how media of that era portrayed and molded women who grew up surrounded by its messages. The book examines…
Will Web3 technologies lead to the end of nation-states?
Farewell to Westphalia: Crypto Sovereignty and Post-Nation-State Governance, by Jarrad Hope and Peter Ludlow, Logos Press, 370 pages, $19.99 "The real problem of humanity," the biologist E.O. Wilson once said, is…
Reality Winner got 5 years in federal prison for leaking 5-page document
I Am Not Your Enemy, by Reality Winner, Spiegel & Grau, 336 pages, $30 During World War I, the Committee on Public Information—a short-lived agency Smithsonian Magazine would describe in retrospect as "Woodrow…
Desi Arnaz’s revolution was televised
Desi Arnaz: The Man Who Invented Television, by Todd S. Purdum, Simon & Schuster, 368 pages, $29.99 There's been plenty written about I Love Lucy, but mostly about Lucy. What about I? Desi Arnaz—the man who played…
‘The Hidden Globe’ examines libertarian free zones
The Hidden Globe: How Wealth Hacks the World, by Atossa Araxia Abrahamian, Riverhead Books, 336 pages, $30 The idea of carving out territorial exceptions to, or escape zones from, the hand of the nation-state has long…
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