New America in the News: 2011

... The nonpartisan New America Foundation publishes an annual Academic BCS, assessing what the bowl lineup would be if on-field results were blended with classroom performance. This year's Academic BCS, by Maggie Severns, ...

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While that's an article of faith among much of the Western media, academic and political elite, says Evgeny Morozov in his provocative new book The Net Delusion, he calls this "cyber-utopianism, a quasi-religious belief in the power of the internet to do supernatural things." ...

But in his sardonic, powerful new book, “The Net Delusion," Evgeny Morozov rips this idea to shreds. He shows how the world's autocrats have learned to love the Internet. Nations like Iran, China, and Venezuela now embrace it as a tool of propaganda and public surveillance. ...

Evgeny Morozov has a blunt riposte to such ambitions: they smack of "excessive optimism and empty McKinsey-speak," not to mention a "creative use of recent history." ...

"Imagine someone was given property on Fifth Avenue 50 years ago, but they don't use it and can't sell it," says Tim Wu, a law professor at Harvard and author of "The Master Switch." That's the situation that's arisen in the spectrum universe. ...

... but also exempt potentially budget-busting tax cuts from any discipline," according to the bipartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. ...

William Hartung, director of the New America Foundation's Arms and Security Initiative, discusses the history of Lockheed Martin—the nation's largest weapons contractor.

"The marketplace is still the primary arena in which we realize our dreams," writes Los Angeles Times columnist Gregory Rodriguez in today's ...

Freedom of information fosters liberal democracy, right? Not so fast, argues Evgeny Morozov in his new book "The Net Delusion. ...