Once upon a time, if you were going to get a loan from me, I would have had to look at your… — Franklin Foer Decision Copy Share Image
“But in the end, the hackers were misunderstood figures. They wanted nothing more than to belong, to subsume their brilliant selves in… — Franklin Foer Cybersecurity Copy Share Image
Not even Trump's father's wealth, nor his father's faith in his son's destiny, could save Trump from incessant discipline. At the age… — Franklin Foer Age Copy Share Image
If I'm reading my Facebook feed, it's using algorithms, procedures, and methods to give me what I want, or what it thinks… — Franklin Foer Business Copy Share Image
Brazil is strewn with ruins of projects - refineries, power plants - begun but never finished. Most of this investment never landed… — Franklin Foer Art Copy Share Image
“More than any previous coterie of corporations, the tech monopolies aspire to mold humanity into their desired image of it. They believe… — Franklin Foer Computers Copy Share Image
In mid-2014, 51 percent of American Republicans viewed Putin very unfavorably. Two years later, 14 percent did. By January, 75 percent of… — Franklin Foer American Copy Share Image
“The Hoover experiment, in the end, hardly realized the happy fantasies about the Engineer King. A very different version of this dream,… — Franklin Foer American life Copy Share Image
Putin has made a habit of supporting far-right candidates who undermine his foes in Europe; perhaps he never could have imagined such… — Franklin Foer American Copy Share Image
“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 Black people Copy Share Image
Google's ability to pick winners and losers in the information world is a menace. These companies have the ability to determine which… — Franklin Foer Business Copy Share Image
One of Trump's vulnerabilities is that he doesn't always vet his people, whether it's business partners, the dubious characters he retweets, or… — Franklin Foer Always Copy Share Image
“The dream of stitching the world into a global village has been embodied in the nomenclature of modern technology—the net is interconnected,… — Franklin Foer Business Copy Share Image
“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 American football Copy Share Image
“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 Football Copy Share Image
The Internet was invented in an age when our entire approach to regulation has been extremely lax, and so you'd think, 'OK,… — Franklin Foer Age Copy Share Image
“Descartes had somehow managed to use skepticism in service of orthodoxy; he preserved crucial shards of church doctrine—the immortal soul, for starters—while… — Franklin Foer Immortal soul Copy Share Image
“it's the most familial-based societies where the sense of obligation is strongest, that breed the worst nepotism and cronyism.” — Franklin Foer Copy Share Image
We think of Netflix as a great personalization machine. It understands how you love French midcentury cinema and British murder mysteries, so… — Franklin Foer British Copy Share Image
After the global financial crisis of 2008, populist uprisings had sprouted across Europe. Putin and his strategists sensed the beginnings of a… — Franklin Foer Crisis Copy Share Image
If you think of data as kind of an x-ray of our soul, it's this window into our minds that the company… — Franklin Foer Business Copy Share Image
Trump considers himself such a virile example of masculinity that he's qualified to serve as the ultimate arbiter of femininity. He relishes… — Franklin Foer Believe Copy Share Image
“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 Business Copy Share Image
Monopolists always defend their monopolies by arguing that competition is wasteful. When the railroad barons completed their monopoly, they argued it would… — Franklin Foer Competition Copy Share Image
The biggest problem is that Facebook and Google are these giant feedback loops that give people what they want to hear. And… — Franklin Foer Fake Copy Share Image
