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New from Pacific Historical Review: JFK's patrol torpedo boat, Japanese internment, Silicon Valley toxins, US-Thai relations, and Gabe Masao translations
Oct 14 2024
A preview of the new issue of Pacific Historical Review, which features articles in U.S. and Pacific history.
Q&A with Julie Guthman, author of The Problem with Solutions
Jul 17 2024
Why has Silicon Valley become the model for addressing today's myriad social and ecological crises? With this book, Julie Guthman digs into the impoverished solutions for food and agriculture currently emerging from Silicon Valley, urging us to stop trying to fix our broken food system through finit
The Chilling Truth Behind Silicon Valley’s Surveillance of Immigrants
Jun 05 2024
By Melissa Villa-Nicholas, author of Data Borders: How Silicon Valley Is Building an Industry around ImmigrantsAround 2018, I started to read reports about increasing information technology surveillance at the U.S.-Mexico border and around the U.S. to assist in immigration detention and deportat
Q&A with Benjamin Shestakofsky, author of Behind the Startup
Mar 21 2024
In recent years, dreams about our technological future have soured as digital platforms have undermined privacy, eroded labor rights, and weakened democratic discourse. In light of the negative consequences of innovation, some blame harmful algorithms or greedy CEOs. Behind the Startup focuses inste
Virtual Warfare is Already Here — But We Can Still Push Back
Mar 08 2022
By Roberto J. González , author of War Virtually: The Quest to Automate Conflict, Militarize Data, and Predict the FutureThe time is a year after tomorrow.The place is the United States of America.Turmoil has steadily enveloped the country following contested midterm elections, multiple
Maharaja of the West
Oct 17 2019
Excerpted from American Disruptor: The Scandalous Life of Leland Stanford by Roland De WolkThe origins of the Stanford campus and the Silicon Valley it has incubated, borne, and sustained could not have had a more unlikely birthplace: a frontier bar called the Bull’s Head tavern in the b
Talking Cultured Meat: A Q&A with Ben Wurgaft, author of Meat Planet
Sep 12 2019
The future of food is inevitably a political and communal thing, and it demands open inquiry and discussion. We get to ask questions over the figurative or literal dinner table.