This polemic by Bari Weiss ("End DEI") has gotten lots of attention. I found, though, that it was easier to understand if I appended "Because I said so" to the end of each paragraph. tabletmag.com/sections/news/…

New blog post, reviewing "Communicating the Future" by Lance Bennett. Important communication strategies for a Green New Deal, learning from the way neoliberalism was developed and promoted prior to the 1980s. #ClimateCrisis #ClimateAction Lance Bennett knowthesystem.org/a-different-st…

Check out my new book. It details seven national proposals, together aimed at taming our media environment and fixing public discourse. (hint: entire Introduction is visible in Read Sample) #polarization #media #socialmedia amazon.com/dp/B0CV9D37CQ

New blog post, reviewing "Democracy When The People Are Thinking" by the iconic James Fishkin. It's challenging, unfortunately, to imagine deliberative events making a serious difference in our era of cheap speech. Stanford CDDRL #deliberation knowthesystem.org/fishkin-and-na…

I'm publishing a series of articles based on my book. (Thanks, AllSides!) Here is the first in the series, just out. allsides.com/blog/brawny-so… AllSides

My second and third articles on AllSides are about the obstacles to media reform posed by corporate impunity and by perverse ideological stances towards the First Amendment. Here's the second. allsides.com/blog/democrati…

And here is the third article. My next articles in the series will detail major proposals for fixing public discourse in the US. allsides.com/blog/pushing-m…

Here, finally, is my first national proposal. A constitutional, technically-feasible way of injecting counterspeech into major political media platforms. I call it "Bust Open the Silos." #polarization #media #democracy AllSides allsides.com/blog/proposal-…

My next article is about an initiative to tame social media. (You heard me.) A rather paternalistic approach (maternalistic?) of getting on social media and publicly, gently chiding divisive rhetoric. The Schoolmarm! It is the 5th installment of my series on fixing public

My next article is about an initiative to provide a new educational resource for the citizenry, that citizens on both sides will actually want to go to. allsides.com/blog/proposal-… Why now? Two reasons. The first, certainly, is because the societal disruption of social media,

The news media let us down during the past year. Well...I guess they do every year. My next series article proposes drastic changes to the Fourth Estate. On AllSides Perspective. AllSides allsides.com/blog/proposal-…

Check out my series on AllSides, about ambitious solutions to our dysfunctional public discourse. (Link is to my website, which has a user-friendly list of links to all the articles so far.) knowthesystem.org/my-series-on-a…

Final installment! I tried to put it into context given the re-election of Donald Trump and his newly appointed FCC head, Brendan Carr. #BrendanCarr #Media #Polarization allsides.com/blog/who-will-…