I spent a few recent plane flights reading Paul Kennedy’s The Parliament of Man: The Past, Present, and Future of the United Nations. It’s a fine history of the UN, worth reading to be sure. (I loved his book from the late 1980s, The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers.) Kennedy starts, but does … Read more
Prof. Yochai Benkler is making the argument(s) of his new book, The Wealth of Networks, (500+ pages; buy it or write about it), in 30 minutes here in Hauser 102 at HLS. Whew — a lot of big ideas, and big words, in a short space. He is considering two large problems. 1) What are … Read more
I’ve assigned a substantial portion of Dan Gillmor’s We the Media for class this coming Monday in Internet, Law and Politics at Harvard Law School. Turns out that the book is sold-out of most of the Harvard Square bookstores, checked out of the libraries, etc. (Not to worry; we’ve ordered some more.) What is so cool … Read more