Catholic distributism might have something to offer for those rushing to adopt these new technologies.
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 inFeatures, Politics & Society
How Communists and Catholics Built a Commonwealth
In our search for viable economic models, we would do well to look to the cooperatives and collective enterprises that have worked well elsewhere, including some surprisingly long-lived examples from northern Italy.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
A case against constant provocation
To “Make America Great Again” or “#resist,” we must begin by not permitting a few voices vying for power to divide and conquer our consciousness.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Maybe it’s time to rethink how we do confession
If you could confess in a small group or online, would you do it?
Posted inFaith, Short Take
What we can learn from the little churches of St. Francis
Shrink the church, see the world.
Posted inFeatures, Politics & Society
Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg and The Case Against Billionaire Philanthropy As We Know It
Philanthropy should be regarded as a subdomain of democracy, not an exception to it.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Trump’s war on the environment is a war on the young and the unborn
My son isn’t choosing the planet he will be getting. The unborn children to come certainly aren’t.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
We need an older and wiser Occupy movement in the age of Trump
A veteran activist provides a blueprint for creating a movement in the moment of Trump.
Posted inLast Take, Politics & Society
The Associated Press is a joint media venture. Maybe Twitter should be too.
The A.P. owes its uniqueness and stature in no small part to its business model.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Adoration Economy: Where we pay attention, we lend our power.
Whether you are pro-Trump or anti-Trump—you’re still transacting in the attention economy of Trump.