I write a lot, on a lot of different platforms. Here a few pieces folks have seemed to like that are representative:
Don’t get all unbundled. – A response to Nicholas Carr and those who spread the false idea that media on the internet has been distilled down to individual units.
The vulnerability in uncharted territory. - A debate with Jay Rosen of PressThink and Off the Bus about the danger omnipresent “citizen media” poses to trust and privacy.
Where Is The Love? – An argument that Obama’s call for social empathy represents an important tactical and ideological response to the GOP’s politics of division, stereotype and hate.
Homophily, xenophilia and empathy. – An attempt to connect Ethan Zuckerberg’s fascinating writing on the opportunities and challenged presented by new media to Obama’s “empathy deficit.”
The Santa Clausification of Martin Luther King, Jr. – Riffing on Cornell West’s essential point that the King we remember never existed. Instead, he was a radical leftists whose true self needs to be remember by the left if is has any hope of re-finding its footing.
