This month, White House officials hosted a meeting with social media and tech giants Google, Twitter, Microsoft, Twitter, Facebook and Apple, among others. On the agenda was President Obama’s call for the companies to thwart terror groups from using those web-based communication platforms. A good...
At first glance, the issue shouts irrelevancy: the rewriting (and production) of Shakespeare’s plays into trendy English. But just under the surface, there lurks a profound lesson about the art of communication that impacts us all. In an op-ed in today’s New York Times (“Shakespeare...
The wheels of the law may grind infinitely slow yet infinitely fine, as the saying goes, but its machinery is never more dangerous to fundamental freedoms than when it operates on vaporous ideas that resemble a now-famous hoax. Here is how I see it. Early this...