PinnedThis May Day, “Je Me Souviens”On this May Day of Action, many of my family and friends of French-Canadian descent should remember this: At the turn of last century, our ancestors were part of a huge migration into the United States, with Canada losing a near-third of its population in the process. (Our branch of…Immigration4 min readImmigration4 min read
Mar 24, 2018Zuck: Be a Hero. Destroy the Ring.Dear Zuck, Like two million others, I watched UK Channel 4’s video of the Cambridge Analytics (CA) sting, where digital marketers brag about how well they manipulate people online to sell elections to the highest bidder. This was, in part, how Trump got elected. CA worked with Facebook partners, bought…Deletefacebook10 min readDeletefacebook10 min read
Oct 28, 2015Skimming Walden PondThoreau was no hypocrite. What agitated me so in Kathryn Schulz’s New Yorker essay about the “hypocrite” Henry David Thoreau (“Pond Scum,” October 19, 2015) that it kept me up late, trying to reduce my own digs down to essential facts? …Walden14 min readWalden14 min read
