Solon Barocas, Sophie Hood, and Malte Ziewitz (NYU): Governing Algorithms: A Provocation Piece. Lucy Maddox on the myth of the teenager: Does the stroppy adolescent exist? The Public Domain Review highlights On the Writing of the Insane, with illustrations by G. Mackenzie Bacon, M.D. (1870). Trudy Lieberman on the enduring myth of the Greedy Geezer: The press too easily accepts the young vs. old frame on the Social Security debate. Holly Case reviews The Young Turks' Crime Against Humanity: The Armenian Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing in the Ottoman Empire by Taner Akcam. How could you possibly convince a community to accept nuclear waste in its back yard? Hints: Deal with them honestly, don’t cram it down their throats, and certainly don’t pay them. Travis Waldron on how the U.S. collects less in taxes than all but two industrialized countries.
