In 7th grade a classmate came up to me at recess on the playground, puffed out his chest, and proudly announced, “I’m in the Four F Club.” I had heard of the 4H club (Head, Heart, Hands, and Health), though it was not prominent in my suburban commuter town. I bit....
What do U.S. companies owe to the U.S., its people and the nation that gave them birth? It’s a question that has been hanging around since the 1980s, in the go-go years of globalization, when U.S. and E.U. companies vocally claimed to be “de-nationalizing” their...
Recent rioting in Great Britain has been fueled by right wing extremists using social media. Right now, Elon musk’s social media site, X (formerly known as Twitter) has been a primary source of hate speech. Hate speech is a ill-defined category U.S. law, but...
Headlines on January 31st claimed that Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Meta, had apologized at a U.S. Senate hearing to parents whose children had died as a result of suicide from cyberbullying, asphyxiation from participating in the “blackout challenge,” body-image...
by Don Mayer, June 28, 2023 The antics of Silicon Valley “alpha dogs” have reached a new and disturbing level. In the public interest, PLBW offers some extraordinary writing by Lora Kelly of the Atlantic magazine. By way of preface, your “perfectly...
