Franklin Foer

Our faith in technology is no longer fully consistent with our belief in liberty.

— Franklin Foer

I think that globalization is partly responsible for the spread of the hostile, radical forms of Islam.

— Franklin Foer

Google is arguably one of the greatest inventions. The search engine is one of the greatest inventions in human history.

— Franklin Foer

The demise of Jeb Bush has been a source of immeasurable pleasure for, well, nearly everyone.

— Franklin Foer

Trump is a real estate guy who sucks up to power to get buildings built.

— Franklin Foer

Mark Zuckerberg talks about telepathy, and Elon Musk has invested in trying to create a brain-machine interface.

— Franklin Foer

If you game Facebook and Google in the right way, then you can achieve a mass audience.

— Franklin Foer

Trump and Yanukovych have shared the same political brain: an operative named Paul Manafort.

— Franklin Foer

In mid-2014, 51 percent of American Republicans viewed Putin very unfavorably. Two years later, 14 percent did. By January, 75 percent of…

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Privacy won't survive the present trajectory of technology - and with the sense of being perpetually watched, humans will behave more cautiously,…

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“There can be only one global village. These structures were the greatest business opportunities ever imagined—and only the innocence of faith could…

— Franklin Foer

“Instead of profound redistributions of power, the new networks are captured by new monopolies, each more powerful and sophisticated than the one…

— Franklin Foer

The first book advance I got was paid out in thirds. And over time, as I've had different deals, the advances get…

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My dad has been in the fight against monopoly since it wasn't so cool. I'm sure I've turned to the subject to…

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As parents, we have kids who reflect back to us our addiction to devices, and we have all sorts of worries about…

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Brazil is a country largely resistant to ideology. This is a strange fact given its founding by followers of the French philosopher…

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“The contemplative life remains freely available to us through our choices—what we read and buy, how we commit to leisure and self-improvement,…

— Franklin Foer

“(The paradox of Italian soccer). As everyone knows, Italian men are the most foppish representatives of their sex on the planet. They…

— Franklin Foer

Once upon a time, if you were going to get a loan from me, I would have had to look at your…

— Franklin Foer

When the mayor of Sao Paulo wanted to increase bus fare by 21 centavos in 2013, the country erupted in the largest…

— Franklin Foer

It's very un-American to say nice things about elites. Elites are often terrible. It's not like we've ever had a perfect set…

— Franklin Foer

Computer scientists have built a set of massive DNS databases, which provide fragmentary histories of communications flows, in part to create an…

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Most of the time the concept of globalization ends up sounding unnecessarily abstruse - even the name itself sounds clunky and highfalutin.…

— Franklin Foer

Brazil is strewn with ruins of projects - refineries, power plants - begun but never finished. Most of this investment never landed…

— Franklin Foer

“Facebook would never put it this way, but algorithms are meant to erode free will, to relieve humans of the burden of…

— Franklin Foer

“There's a strange uniformity in the vocabulary European soccer fans use to hate black people. The same primate insults get hurled. Although…

— Franklin Foer

“The tech companies are destroying something precious, which is the possibility of contemplation. They have created a world in which we’re constantly…

— Franklin Foer

“Critics of soccer contend that the game inherently culminates in death and destruction. They argue that the game gives life to tribal…

— Franklin Foer

“there's a long history of resistance movements igniting in the soccer stadium. In the Red Star Revolution, Draza, Krle, and the other…

— Franklin Foer

“Facebook is a carefully managed top-down system, not a robust public square. It mimics some of the patterns of conversation, but that’s…

— Franklin Foer

“As the Protestants celebrate a goal, they're egged on by the team captain, a long-haired Italian called Lorenzo Amoruso, who has the…

— Franklin Foer

“Soccer's appeal lay in its opposition to the other popular sports. For children of the sixties, there was something abhorrent about enrolling…

— Franklin Foer

“Over the last generation, journalism has slowly been swallowed. The ascendant media companies of our era don’t think of themselves as heirs…

— Franklin Foer

“Of course, this is not an innocent activity—even though the tech companies disavow any responsibility for the material they publish and promote.…

— Franklin Foer

“Google’s trucks would pull up to libraries and quietly walk away with boxes of books to be quickly scanned and returned. “If…

— Franklin Foer

An article in the 'Moscow Times' described Trump as the city's first grand builder since Stalin.

— Franklin Foer

I have really no desire to go back into management ever again.

— Franklin Foer

The greatest miracle of the Internet is that it exists - the second greatest is that it persists.

— Franklin Foer

“The mathematicians and engineers may have disavowed the existence of God, but they placed themselves in a celestial role of giving life…

— Franklin Foer

“Intellectuals, freelance writers, investigative journalists, and midlist novelists are the analog to the family farmers, who have always struggled but simply can’t…

— Franklin Foer