Lucie Greene’s new book “Silicon States” is about the danger of concentrating so much power in so few hands.
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The Internet Isn’t Forever
When an online news outlet goes out of business, its archives can disappear as well. The new battle over journalism’s digital legacy.
Posted inBooks, Crime, History, Story
Monopoly vs. the Magic Cape
Trust busting is a great idea. But would it be enough?
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Longreads Best of 2017: Local Reporting
We asked writers and editors to choose some of their favorite stories of the year in various categories. Here is the best in local reporting.
Posted inArts & Culture, Blog Post, Current Events, Media
Gossip and News, Strange Bedfellows
Recent stories exposing powerful, abusive men suggest there’s value in taking rumors seriously.
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Billionaires vs. the Press in the Era of Trump
A look at how deep pockets and expensive libel suits allow billionaires like Donald Trump and Peter Thiel to hamper and threaten the free press in the United States.
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The Rich Man’s Dropout Club
In 2010, billionaire investor Peter Thiel created a fellowship that awarded $100,000 to a select few young people to quit college and become entrepreneurs. The Chronicle spoke to nine fellows from the inaugural class to check on their progress.
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What Silicon Valley Is Really Selling Us
Wired senior editor Bill Wasik on the public’s changing relationship with both Silicon Valley and the technology it creates and promotes: One of the most toxic memes to waft out of the industry recently has been the idea of quasi-secession, whether it was Peter Thiel’s dream of floating hacker communities or Tim Draper’s plan to make Silicon […]
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The Billionaire King of Techtopia
Friedman was soon pitching to Peter Thiel, a staunch libertarian himself, the big, weird idea. It goes like this: Friedman wants to establish new sovereign nations built on oil-rig-type platforms anchored in international waters—free from the regulation, laws, and moral suasion of any landlocked country. They’d be small city-states at first, although the aim is […]
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Back to the Future with Peter Thiel
“Education is a bubble in a classic sense. To call something a bubble, it must be overpriced and there must be an intense belief in it. Housing was a classic bubble, as were tech stocks in the ’90s, because they were both very overvalued, but there was an incredibly widespread belief that almost could not […]
