Democracy is an information system. That’s the starting place of our new paper: “Common-Knowledge Attacks on Democracy.” In it, we look at democracy through the lens of information security, trying […]
Nearly 40% of female suicides occur in India
Study indicates the trend is based on early marriage – one-fifth of Indian women still marry before the age of 15 – along with male violence against women and other […]
How to Sway a Baboon Despot
What other species can teach us about democracy Early last year, more than 70 years after its publication, George Orwell’s Animal Farm appeared on The Washington Post’s best-seller list. A writer for the New York Observer declared the novel—an […]
Would Twitter Ruin Bee Democracy?
Simple-majority democracy is used by many animals. But they don’t have social media. Did the ancient Athenians invent democracy? Or did bugs have it way earlier than the Greeks? Cornell […]
That Obscure Subject of Desire
Patriarchy engenders our values, desires and possibilities. It’s time to outgrow these gendered constraints on our becoming. Let’s talk about pleasure. I keep hearing a particular gripe about this cultural […]