Social Media as a False Political Idol
George Packer notes in his New Yorker piece on Silicon Valley’s political aims: “When financiers say that they’re doing God’s work by providing cheap credit, and oilmen claim to be patriots who are...
View Article“What important truth do very few people agree with you on?”
Peter Thiel, the billionaire investor who rocked the Stanford campus in the late 1980s when he founded the conservative Stanford Review, is known for being contrarian. It is fitting, then, that his...
View ArticleThe Promise and Perils of Corporate Leadership on Gay Rights
On October 30, Apple’s Tim Cook became the first openly gay Fortune 500 CEO. His open letter to BusinessWeek expressed his appreciation for the “public figures who have bravely come out” and an...
View ArticleThe Political Vacuity of Transhumanism
As a foremost representative for a school of thought that prides itself in its philosophical features, it is ironic that the famed transhumanist Zoltan Istvan committed a logical error in the first...
View ArticleCybersecurity in an Age of Distrust
Last Friday, President Barack Obama addressed Stanford students at the White House Summit on Cybersecurity and Consumer Protection, bringing CEOs and government officials from across the country...
View ArticleTwitter Terrorism
It is a well-known Leftist argument that the current dismal state of the Middle East is at least partly a product of the West’s economic and military interventions in the region over the last several...
View ArticleHow Sustainable are Third-Party Taxi Companies?
Ruru Hoong takes a look at the factors that can make or break the third-party taxi app industry.
View ArticleThe FBI Should Not Have Hacked the iPhone
Sebastian Alarcon argues that the FBI created a serious security risk for a small reward in creating a decryption method, which can still be easily exposed by hackers, for the sake of unimportant...
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