Sep 19, 2025 | Blog, Democracy and Transitions to Authoritarianism, Journalism, Bias & Censored News
As we watch the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) use its power to stifle political dissent, we should step back and look at the story of how we got here. It is a story about the simultaneous (re)concentration of economic power, on the one hand, and the...
Apr 20, 2025 | Blog, Framing and the Energy Transition Debate, News, Partisanship, Elections and the Energy Transition
Climate of Contempt bemoans the way ideological and social media encourages and supercharges the human instinct to make attribution errors in politics. These errors involve a number of logical fallacies I describe in the book, and they often take the form of assigning...
Feb 25, 2025 | Blog, Democracy and Transitions to Authoritarianism, Journalism, Bias & Censored News
I recently began teaching a course on the regulation of “networks, platforms and public utilities,” using a 2022 casebook by the same name. It is from a group of progressive legal scholars who are trying to recover the national memory of the public interest reasons...
