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Binance and the End of Crypto’s Dream to Escape From Government – with Abraham Newman

November 24, 2023 Wall Street Journal with Abraham Newman

On Nov. 21, Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, pleaded guilty to breaking U.S. anti-money-laundering laws. Its CEO has stepped down, and the company will ...

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The New Economic Security State: How De-Risking Will Remake Geopolitics – with Abraham Newman

October 19, 2023 Foreign Affairs with Abraham Newman

In April 2023, U.S. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan begged his listeners’ indulgence for straying out of his lane by delivering a major address about ...

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What If These Economic Weapons Fall into Trump’s Hands? – with Abraham Newman

October 11, 2023 New York Times with Abraham Newman

The Biden administration has built an unprecedented machine for economic and technological coercion. When Russia invaded Ukraine, the United States and its allies cut off ...

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What Happens When Tech Bros Run National Security? – with Abraham Newman

September 20, 2023 Time with Abraham Newman

It’s September 2023, and markets have become battlefields, as economics and geopolitics become ever more closely intertwined. Many think that we are returning to the ...

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How a Single Hard-Charging CEO Helped the US Dollar Take Over the World – with Abraham Newman

September 12, 2023 Insider with Abraham Newman

Walter Wriston was once one of the most powerful people on the planet. The chairman of the financial giant Citibank and its parent corporation, Citicorp, ...

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How the U.S. Stumbled Into Using Chips as a Weapon Against China – with Abraham Newman

September 9, 2023 Wall Street Journal with Abraham Newman

Last October, the Biden administration unleashed one of its biggest countermeasures to date against China’s military ambitions: export controls on, among other things, cutting-edge semiconductors ...

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American Influence: Ireland Must Focus on Economic Security as Arena of Vulnerability

September 2, 2023 Irish Times

After decades of neglect, Ireland is finally debating national security. Unfortunately, we don’t just need to catch up with the rest of the world, but ...

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Behold the AI shoggoth – with Cosma Shalizi

June 21, 2023 machine learning as social information processing The Economist

Artificial intelligence is a familiar-looking monster The academics argue that large language models have much older cousins in markets and bureaucracies An internet meme keeps on ...

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Analytical Democracy: A Microfoundational Approach – with Hugo Mercier and Melissa Schwartzberg

May 9, 2023 American Political Science Review featured with Hugo Mercier and Melissa Schwartzberg

Henry Farrell, Hugo Mercier and Melissa Schwartzberg (2023), “Analytical Democracy: A Microfoundational Approach,” American Political Science Review. 117,2:767-772. A prominent and publicly influential literature challenges ...

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How Artificial Intelligence Can Aid Democracy – with Bruce Schneier and Nathan E. Sanders

April 21, 2023 Slate with Bruce Schneier and Nathan E. Sanders

There’s good reason to fear that A.I. systems like ChatGPT and GPT4 will harm democracy. Public debate may be overwhelmed by industrial quantities of autogenerated ...

Binance and the End of Crypto’s Dream to Escape From Government – with Abraham Newman

The New Economic Security State: How De-Risking Will Remake Geopolitics – with Abraham Newman

What If These Economic Weapons Fall into Trump’s Hands? – with Abraham Newman

What Happens When Tech Bros Run National Security? – with Abraham Newman

How a Single Hard-Charging CEO Helped the US Dollar Take Over the World – with Abraham Newman

How the U.S. Stumbled Into Using Chips as a Weapon Against China – with Abraham Newman

American Influence: Ireland Must Focus on Economic Security as Arena of Vulnerability

Behold the AI shoggoth – with Cosma Shalizi

Analytical Democracy: A Microfoundational Approach – with Hugo Mercier and Melissa Schwartzberg

How Artificial Intelligence Can Aid Democracy – with Bruce Schneier and Nathan E. Sanders

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