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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.

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AI’s Big Rift is Like a Religious Schism

December 12, 2023 The Economist
TWO CENTURIES ago Henri de Saint-Simon, a French utopian, proposed a new religion, worshipping the godlike force of progress, with Isaac Newton as its chief saint. He believed that humanity’s sole uniting interest, “the progress of the sciences”, should be directed by the “elect of humanity”, a 21-member “Council of Newton”. Friedrich Hayek, a 20th-century ...
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When Politics Drives Scholarship – with Steve Teles

August 30, 2017 The Boston Review with Steve Teles
The publication of Nancy MacLean’s Democracy in Chains, a history of the “public choice” economist James Buchanan and his impact on American politics, has led to an enormous, highly charged debate. But as Marshall Steinbaum correctly noted in this journal, not many people have weighed in who aren’t either Team Public Choice or Team Anti-Buchanan. ...
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