A radical manifesto for the transformation of post-pandemic politicsThe question of ownership is the critical fault line of our times, and during the pandemic this issue has only become more divisive. Since March 2020 we have witnessed the extraordinary growth of asset manager capitalism and the explosive concentration of wealth within the hands of... See more

Controlling valuable pillars of internet utility -- the flow of information, social connections, music and video delivery -- has created tremendous wealth for a few while very little for stakeholders not on the company’s cap table.

This all had to do with editors. If you were the kind of person who was enrolled at Princeton, you tended to speak of them as if they were individual human beings. The Toms and Kevins of the world, and most of the population of this town, were more likely to club together and subscribe to collective edit streams. Between those extremes was a slidin

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If the 20th century represented the victory of individualism against the commune, it is hard not to notice the ways that in the conquest of China, the domination of conspiracy groups in politics, the rise of DAOs and worker-collectives, and the acceptance of open-source even among the most gated corporations, the internet is slowly but surely shift... See more