A quick recap on United States intellectual property for my students.

Copyrights and patents are monopolies granted in law to creators so as to encourage …

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As I wrote in the post “Not notable: Dead to Wikipedia,” I was disappointed with the quality of my biography on Wikipedia, but (aside from …

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I appreciate any feedback folks are kind enough to leave on a new draft: Saying it so doesn’t make it so: Insights on privilege …

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After roughly four years, my Wikipedia biography is no more; it now redirects to a page for my book about Wikipedia. In reflecting upon this …

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I enjoyed listening to Stepehn Dubner’s Freakonomics interview with Katherine Milkman; in it they talk about “temptation bundling,” a term that Milkman and her …

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I enjoyed reading Meredith Patterson’s recent essay “When Nerds Collide: My Intersectionality Will Have Weirdoes Or It Will Be Bullshit.” While reading it I …

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I think one of the reasons for my discomfort with many of the arguments I see online (especially in the Twitter context, like the #stopwadhwa2015 …

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Privilege is often understood by way of metaphor. Like any tool, a given metaphor is apt for some tasks more so than others. Even so …

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In watching the twitter storm about #stopwadhwa2015 I’m struck by two things, but first, some context—which as we will see, is problematic in …

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The notion of privilege, an unearned advantage relative to and perhaps at the expense of others, first arose in the context of class and racism …

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