Humanizing Big Data with the Hedonometer
If data can act as a window casting even a small shaft of light onto the bigger, deeply human picture of our collective emotional experiences, what else can it do?
“So What IS Anti-Globalism?”: A Guide, Through Brubaker, Illustrated in Trump Tweets
Trump’s incessant tweets may seem nonsensical, but they demonstrate something critically important—that Trumpian politics are a textbook manifestation of what influential scholar Rogers Brubaker described as one of several forms of nationalism.
Mock Policy Memo: Reparative Justice for Climate Refugees
This policy memo explores the issue of ethical responsibility for climate displacement.
Book Review: Yael Tamir’s Why Nationalism — Defending the Indefensible?
The old adage warns us not to judge a book by its cover, but the cover of Yael Tamir’s Why Nationalism is a perfect visual summary of her central point: its stark Venn diagram evokes the dual nations-within-a-nation of our present polarized moment.