On October 17, 2014, we are launching the Andover Institute at Phillips Academy. The Institute will be a hub for innovation at PA, where our students, faculty, and others come together to explore new ideas in teaching and learning at the secondary school level. The idea is to have a “Bell Labs” here at Andover … Read more
The report of the hearing, for which I’ve submitted written testimony for the record today, in the United States House of Representatives Committee on International Relations, Subcommittee on Africa, Global Human Rights and International Operations and Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific, is here.
A generally good, clear piece by Fortune senior writer Marc Gunther tackling the important question of the ethics of companies and their involvement in the world’s most repressive regimes from an informational policy standpoint. There are many subtleties between the types of involvement of the companies named in the article, though. We need a reliable … Read more
I’m sitting between Jack Balkin and Mark McKenna, and across from Jonathan Zittrain’s face on a television screen, at a beautifully-organized conference at the Washington University School of Law in St. Louis. The topic is the First Amendment and the Rehnquist Court. JZ is giving a cool variant of his generativity story. If you haven’t … Read more
The US Department of State’s Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor released its International Religious Freedom 2005 report.
The LA Times’ Megan Stack has written an excellent, anecdote-rich piece on the effect of technology- and social-norm-based censorship in the Middle East, with emphasis on Syria, Bahrain, and Egypt. At ONI, we’ve done an in-depth report on Bahrain. Ms. Stack’s piece is heavy on the youth and politics angle on the story, both of … Read more