Insight
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| Issues | 109 | Founded | 8 years ago | Last Issue | 3 years ago |
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Who should worry about H5N1?
My New York Times columns have returned to dealing with a range of topics, some I’d never have expected to write about, like the royals(!), and some of the usual such as software infrastructure and technical debt, generative artificial inte...
On the Alex Jones Verdict: The Very, Very Lucrative World of Lying
My latest piece for the New York Times returns to a key question: how should we grapple with the current historic transformation of the public sphere? I focus on the Alex Jones trial and verdict, but my question is about the future: what ca...
Long Covid, The Long History Version
I spent most of my summer researching our Long Covid response. The first (I hope) of many pieces on this topic is out today, in the New York Times:
When the influenza pandemic of 1918-19 ended, misery continued.
Many who survived be...
Reprint: In Memory of My Grandmother
(I originally wrote this essay in 2016 for my old newsletter here, and made it public in 2019 after she passed away so some people may have seen it before. I’m including it here to keep it all in one place. The pandemic, tragically, had a l...
A move, some news, and a new essay on privacy and technology in a post-Roe America
A few quick updates. I have been granted tenure at Columbia, and decided to accept a job there. This is bittersweet, as it means I am leaving the University of North Carolina to become a professor at Columbia University. My experience at UN...
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I'm a professor at Princeton University and a columnist at the The New York Times. I write about science, technology, society from a complex systems and sociological lens.
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