One can wait for the climate apocalypse to come, or one can see that it is happening already, especially in the pockets and places far from centers of power, where people live closest to the earth.
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.
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Should we take ‘free money’ from venture capitalists?
Universal basic income is an idea with a lot of potential, but what matters is how such a policy is implemented.
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‘Open These Doors’
Advent campaign calls on Cardinal Dolan to open up New York’s shuttered churches to the city’s homeless.
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How should Mark Zuckerberg give away his $45 billion?
The Facebook founder wants to ‘advance human potential and promote equality.’ Here are two way he could actually do it.
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Why ‘appropriate technology’ has everything to do with the Catholic concept of subsidiarity
The case against PDF documents
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The Pregnancy of Mary
Perhaps we need to meditate more on the active work of Advent.
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Does Facebook Care?
If Facebook cares about us, it should governed by a structure that is principally, not secondarily, accountable to us.
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How the digital economy is making us gleaners again
How the digital economy is making us commoners again
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Basic Justice
The idea of basic income has been catching on in tech culture lately.
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What does subsidiarity mean? A papal explainer
The concept of subsidiarity emerged out of Catholic social thought during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.