Maybe we just like victimizing each other and never addressing basic problems. But our young citizens have had enough of this political show and are making a spectacle of their own.
Nathan Schneider
Nathan Schneider is a professor of media studies at the University of Colorado Boulder. He is the author of Governable Spaces: Democratic Design for Online Life and God in Proof: The Story of a Search From the Ancients to the Internet.
Posted inFaith, Short Take
Don’t blame the sex abuse crisis on queer Catholics
Using an abuse and accountability scandal to scapegoat Catholic queerness is not O.K.
Posted inFeatures, Politics & Society
How to survive Trump: End the cult of the presidency
The presidency has become a cult to which we are expected to constantly direct our attention; the result is a disenchantment with democracy.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Protesting our country’s nuclear weapons is (still) worth going to jail for
Despite being out of sight, the bombs are as ever-present as micro-aggressions and mass incarceration.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
The transactional apocalypse is coming.
What if we could make economics uninteresting again?
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
After the Vatican hackathon, what does Catholic entrepreneurship look like?
The Vatican just held a hackathon. Take a moment to recover from the shock.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
The university is not supposed to be elite. It’s meant to serve.
I want to be able to serve the state better. I want to be able to serve more of the state.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
A moral education in the Bitcoin boom
It turns out to be easier to make a quick buck in this world than to change it.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
In cowboy country, inequality is not a bug. It’s a uniquely American strategy.
The goal is not to make sure everyone is safe and secure. It is to enable a few people to do really, really well.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
The neoliberal sexuality of the left
Leftist men need to get more leftist about sex—and maybe more conservative, too.