Returning home in the 1920’s, Romano Guardini reflects on the paradigm shift afflicting the southern Italian countryside. He is saddened by new technologies and manufacturing growth which threaten to break his fellow countrymen who lack “the grim seriousness, violent power, and inner alertness to the monstrous that is demanded.” …

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On Thursday, I will be in attendance as the White House gathers technologists at a social media summit to discuss the growing concern of major tech companies and their role in online bias. While I agree that prejudice against conservative outlets is occurring, I do not believe the crisis is…

Rereading Debord’s The Society of the Spectacle — By Michael Marinaccio The strangest thing about… Cambridge, Facebook, Donald Trump, the Russians, and all my friends who milked 2016 for everything it was worth …is that no one really did anything wrong — not from a technological standpoint, at least. And none of it is even new technology. And…

Carrying a tome around has more benefits than you think — To be honest, I don’t know where I first picked up this bit of advice (probably in some Medium blog!), but it’s been with me for close to three years now: “If you spend enough time carrying a book around, you’ll eventually read the damn thing.” It may be annoying…

You’ve had the internet for 20 years now. Are you smarter? —