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John Naughton

John Naughton

The United States of Amnesia

Posted on July 5, 2018 by jjn1

Jul 5, 2018

Jul 5, 2018

John Naughton

If you want to understand Trump, read Plato’s ‘Republic’

Posted on March 26, 2018 by jjn1

Mar 26, 2018

Mar 26, 2018

John Naughton

Richard Posner retiring? Not quite — thankfully

Posted on September 5, 2017 by jjn1

Sep 6, 2017

Richard Posner retiring? Not quite — thankfully

Sep 6, 2017

John Naughton

Wishful thinking makes for bad policy

Wishful thinking is a dangerous addiction, for nothing warps one’s judgement like the temptation to believe that something will happen…

Aug 6, 2017

Aug 6, 2017

John Naughton

Reflections on the election in Britain: or why David Cameron ought to be washing dishes for a…

Posted on June 13, 2017 by jjn1

Jun 13, 2017

Reflections on the election in Britain: or why David Cameron ought to be washing dishes for a…

Jun 13, 2017

John Naughton

Reflections on ‘Citizen Jane’

Last night we went to see Matt Tyrnauer’s documentary about the legendary battle between the journalist, author and activist Jane Jacobs…

May 7, 2017

May 7, 2017

John Naughton

Bob Taylor, the man who funded the Arpanet, is dead at 85

Bob Taylor, the man who funded the Arpanet (the military precursor of the Internet) has died at the age of 85. He also funded much of Doug…

Apr 15, 2017

Bob Taylor, the man who funded the Arpanet, is dead at 85

Apr 15, 2017

John Naughton

Searching for the ultimate ‘man-cave’

My eye was caught by an extraordinary piece in the FT last weekend which, in a strange way, relates to my Observer column about the Silicon…

Apr 12, 2017

Searching for the ultimate ‘man-cave’

Apr 12, 2017

John Naughton

‘Facts’ and the production of ignorance

Tim Harford has a terrific article in the current issue of the Financial Times magazine about the current ‘post-truth’ hoo-hah. He starts…

Mar 12, 2017

Mar 12, 2017

John Naughton

Why there’s no tech fix for the mess we’re in

Amanda Hess has a thoughtful piece in the NYT about proposed tech fixes for the ‘filter bubble’ problem that has supposedly fractured…

Mar 4, 2017

Mar 4, 2017

John Naughton

John Naughton

Professor/writer/dad/grandad/photographer. With David Runciman, I run the ‘Technology and Democracy’ research project at CRASSH in Cambridge University.

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