Review | April 16, 2026
April 16, 2026
Operation Gaslight
Do you feel less manipulated by the information state than you did two years ago?
Nicholas Carr
Nicholas Carr is the author of several books on technology and culture, including the Pulitzer Prize finalist The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains (W.W. Norton, 2010; updated 2020) and Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart (W. W. Norton, 2025).
In The New Atlantis
Essay | Winter 2025
The Tyranny of Now
There’s no time like the present to revisit the warning of forgotten media theorist Harold Innis: “Enormous improvements in communication have made understanding more difficult.”
Correspondence | Winter 2022
Don’t Wait for Silver Bullets for Social Media Reform
A framework to protect privacy and promote the “public interest” gives us what we need now: the right start.
How to Fix Social Media
A century ago, new media tech brought fake news, privacy woes, and censorship fights — and American democracy tamed it. It’s time for new legislation that revives the wisdom of that era.