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My personal contribution to the US/Canada trade war

https://ethanzuckerman.com/2026/08/27/my-personal-contribution-to-the-us-canada-trade-war/

Published: August 27, 2026 18:47

If you’re active in academic circles, you might have seen my name in a big announcement today. (Okay, maybe it would have been a bigger announcement if Trump hadn’t announced renaming Lake Ontario. But the FT quotes me… which you can only read if you can…

The Eyes Have Had It: A (Mental) Health Update from the Summer of Sue

https://ethanzuckerman.com/2026/08/10/the-eyes-have-had-it-a-mental-health-update-from-the-summer-of-sue/

Published: August 10, 2026 16:08

Academic summers always start with a plan. This is the summer I’m going to start three new lines of research, writing key bits of code myself. It’s the summer I publish those two papers I’ve had in draft. It’s the summer I’m going to step away from the…

Recent Writing, as of March 2026

https://ethanzuckerman.com/2026/03/31/recent-writing-as-of-march-2026/

Published: March 31, 2026 15:45

I write a monthly column for Prospect Magazine in the UK, covering the social implications of information technology. This month’s column is about how AI has been transforming programming, and how as an educator, I am worried about our ability to keep…

Howard French: The Second Emancipation

https://ethanzuckerman.com/2026/03/24/howard-french-the-second-emancipation/

Published: March 24, 2026 22:46

Howard French is one of the leading journalists and thinkers about Africa’s role in the world, and the attention the world does and doesn’t pay to the continent’s people and potential. He’s also a UMass Amherst graduate, and is on campus this week, talking…

“Where Should We Live” – a new class on cities, migration and climate change

https://ethanzuckerman.com/2026/01/21/where-should-we-live-a-new-class-on-cities-migration-and-climate-change/

Published: January 21, 2026 17:03

I’m teaching two classes at UMass Amherst this spring. One is the latest incarnation of my “Fixing Social Media” class, which I launched late in my time at MIT and brought with me to UMass. It’s becoming “Fixing Platform Power” as we’re expanding our focus…

Listening to All the Music

https://ethanzuckerman.com/2026/01/07/listening-to-all-the-music/

Published: January 8, 2026 02:08

When people talk about the beauty of the early web – before the Internet was “a group of five websites, each consisting of screenshots of text from the other four” – they’re often talking about reference sites like Wikipedia, remarkable collections of…

Gramsci’s Nightmare: AI, Platform Power and the Automation of Cultural Hegemony

https://ethanzuckerman.com/2025/12/05/gramscis-nightmare-ai-platform-power-and-the-automation-of-cultural-hegemony/

Published: December 5, 2025 23:50

Ny friend Joachim Wiewiura invited me to give the inaugural talk at the Center for the Philosophy of AI (CPAI) at the University of Copenhagen this past Tuesday. It felt like a good opportunity to go out on a limb and explore a line of thinking I’ve been…