Henry Farrell

Facebook is Finally Learning to Love Privacy Laws (and Abraham Newman)

Nine years ago, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg claimed that people do not care about privacy. Things have changed.

Access the full article here.

Other Writing:

Essay

This Is How Trump Will Smash the Machine of U.S. Economic Power

February 17, 2025 New York Times pin
Economic security officials worked across administrations, gradually developing grand ambitions of a global order founded on financial sanctions, export controls and development of crucial technologies. Each new administration built up the economic weapons it inherited from the last and encouraged its successors to keep building the structures of American economic power. We are about to ...
Read Article
Essay

Silicon Valley’s Reading List Reveals Its Political Ambitions

February 21, 2025 Bloomberg featured pin
In 2008, Paul Graham mused about the cultural differences between great US cities. Three years earlier, Graham had co-founded Y Combinator, a “startup accelerator” that would come to epitomize Silicon Valley — and would move there in 2009. But at the time Graham was based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, which, as he saw it, sent a different message ...
Read Article
Browse the Archives

Substack

Other Notes

Pinboard

Site Map

Social

Archives

Search

Popular Key Words

with Abraham Newman
featured
Foreign Affairs
Weaponized Interdependence
with Adrienne Hèritier
with Bruce Schneier
pin
Democracy
Foreign Affairs (online)
EU
with Martha Finnemore
Foreign Policy
The American Prospect
Lawfare
Foreign Policy (online)
Foreign Affairs (website)
Financial Times
with Cosma Shalizi
Vox.com
Book review
West EuropeanPolitics...
The Boston Review
New York Times
Marc Lynch
with John Quiggin

© 2025 Henry Farrell. All Rights Reserved. Privacy policy. Design by Kate Marsh.