Timothy Garton Ash on Europe, Past and Present
The Good Fight
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The Importance of Complexity in the Information Environment
I've come to the somewhat depressing belief that 90 percent of the nonfiction books that sell really well can be summarized in six or seven words. I think you know Thomas Piketty's book capitalist is a very good book contributed to centering a very important debate but it's not an unlikely commercial success. It's difficult to talk in a sophisticated nuanced way about the information environment because of the defining characteristic of that information environment which is profusion, he says.
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