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
There's this proud American tradition of worrying about the power of communication companies. That going all the way back to the founding,… — Franklin Foer Communication 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
There are, in fact, apps you can use to measure how many times you check your phone, and I shudder to think… — Franklin Foer Day Copy Share Image
Self-publishing is fine. But in a world of self-publishing, where everything is about what you get on the back end, there's a… — Franklin Foer Back Copy Share Image
I'm reading the way a lot of technology executives have decried 'gatekeepers' and 'traditional media,' and that one of the promises of… — Franklin Foer Media Copy Share Image
“There are only so many hours in the day for amateur pursuits—and very few writers are as gifted as Wallace Stevens or… — Franklin Foer Sylvia plath Copy Share Image
Most of the time the concept of globalization ends up sounding unnecessarily abstruse - even the name itself sounds clunky and highfalutin. — Franklin Foer Concepts 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
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
I think what's happening with book advances is something that most of the world just doesn't fully appreciate, especially when it comes… — Franklin Foer Best Copy Share Image
Trump uses the phrase 'America First,' only dimly aware that he is repeating a phrase from the interwar years and indifferent to… — Franklin Foer America 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
“Back in the seventies, Herbert Simon, the Nobel-winning economist, took these inchoate sentiments and explained them rigorously: “What information consumes is rather… — Franklin Foer Data 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
“Hackers, he told one interviewer, were “just this group of computer scientists who were trying to quickly prototype and see what was… — Franklin Foer Computers Copy Share Image
The New York Times and PBS are gatekeepers of a sort. And they perform that role of gatekeeping with a set of… — Franklin Foer Aspiration 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
Indeed, this is an important characteristic of the globalization debate: the tendency toward glorifying all things indigenous even when they deserve to… — Franklin Foer Characteristics Copy Share Image
As the 2016 campaign has graphically illustrated, Trump doesn't treat rivals gently. Testifying before a congressional committee in 1993, he began with… — Franklin Foer Committee Copy Share Image
There's an oft-used shorthand for the technologist's view of the world. It is assumed that libertarianism dominates Silicon Valley, and that isn't… — Franklin Foer Found Copy Share Image
There's no reason why there needs to be one search engine or one social network or one store that we buy all… — Franklin Foer Competition Copy Share Image
Once upon a time, gatekeepers were newspaper publishers and magazine editors and people who ran radio stations and news networks. And they… — Franklin Foer Gatekeepers Copy Share Image
“He poses the existential question of the modern soccer hooligan: “If football violence doesn’t take place in the stadium, is it even… — Franklin Foer Football Copy Share Image
People are drawn to radical Islam because they feel their traditional ways of life threatened by the influx of KFC and Hollywood… — Franklin Foer Feels 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
“it's the most familial-based societies where the sense of obligation is strongest, that breed the worst nepotism and cronyism.” — Franklin Foer Cronyism Copy Share Image
“Just as Nabisco and Kraft wanted to change how we eat and what we eat, Amazon, Facebook, and Google aspire to alter… — Franklin Foer Change Copy Share Image
“Carl Page had his own idea about how to go about it. He posited that procedures contained in Robert’s Rules of Order,… — Franklin Foer Technology Copy Share Image
I don't see tribalism ever really disappearing entirely. I just think that people are almost hardwired to identify as groups. And that… — Franklin Foer Disappear Copy Share Image
Ukrainians use the term 'political technologist' as a favored synonym for electoral consultant. Trump turned to Manafort for what seemed at first… — Franklin Foer How Copy Share Image
“By the time we came to understand the consequences of our revised patterns of consumption, the damage had been done to our… — Franklin Foer Consequences Copy Share Image
My hope is that we revive 'monopoly' as a core piece of political rhetoric that broadly denotes dominant firms with pernicious powers. — Franklin Foer Hope Copy Share Image
Donald Trump's interest in Russia dates back to Soviet times. In fact, there's extraordinary footage of him shaking hands with Mikhail Gorbachev.… — Franklin Foer American Copy Share Image
Gay marriage is a divisive issue in France, where Fillon has vowed to block adoption by same-sex couples. The battle against Islamism… — Franklin Foer Battle Copy Share Image
In the epic war over Silicon Valley's intellectual property, Bill Gates was on the side of licensing copyright and robust protections for… — Franklin Foer Cybersecurity Copy Share Image
If you're presented with choices that steer you toward your worst instincts, that's what you'll choose. If I'm presented with Snickers bars,… — Franklin Foer Choice Copy Share Image
Having a friend in the Kremlin would help Trump fulfill his longtime dream of planting his name in the Moscow skyline -… — Franklin Foer Campaign Copy Share Image
We've been merging with tools since the beginning of human evolution, and arguably, that's one of the things that makes us human… — Franklin Foer Beginning Copy Share Image
I'd actually argue that the best thing to happen to the 'Washington Post' was hiring Marty Baron, maybe the greatest newspaper editor… — Franklin Foer Best Copy Share Image
