With his 5,800-word manifesto on “Building Global Community,” the Facebook C.E.O. seems to be easing ever more into his role as benevolent dictator of the media universe.
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, In All Things
Holy App: Meet a woman bringing the saints to your smartphone
The love and healing to be found in prayer and meditation are available to all.
Posted inPolitics & Society
A college professor and a cop ask, ‘Who are the elites, anyway?’
Elites are defined less by the position they hold than by their pretense to dictate reality.
Posted inIn All Things, Politics & Society
Why we should listen to anarchists in the age of Trump
Anarchism calls for a politics that doesn’t begin and end with politicians.
Posted inFaith, In All Things
I like priests. I just wish their homilies were shorter.
Long homilies risk charging in as an interruption on the main event: the Eucharist.
Posted inIn All Things, Politics & Society
Why one city is backing a different kind of family values: housing co-ops
Early Wednesday morning, the city council passed a measure that enables housing cooperatives to form in Boulder’s neighborhoods.
Posted inIn All Things
Want to combat ‘fake news?’ How much would you pay for a Spotify of real news?
In the post-election coming-out party for fake news, people seem more willing to pay for the real thing.
Posted inIn All Things, Politics & Society
How can we resist the ‘savior mentality’—in ourselves and our leaders?
An interview with Jordan Flaherty, author of ‘No More Heroes: Grassroots Challenges to the Savior Mentality.’
Posted inColumns, Faith
When I converted to Catholicism, I didn’t realize I had to become a certain ‘type’ of Catholic
I had a lot to learn in order to pass for a Roman Catholic.
Posted inFaith, In All Things
How a murdered Maryknoll sister became the subject of a new spiritual and political thriller
‘A Radical Faith’ tells the story of Sister Maura Clarke, one of the churchwomen killed in El Salvador in 1980.