The principle of privacy, though foundational in the development of early American political thought, takes an unfortunate backseat today. It’s not so much an issue as it is an afterthought; physical...
Two years ago, I began watching and reading the news regularly. My morning routine during my junior and senior years of high school was simple — wake up, make a couple Eggo waffles and coffee, sit down...
One morning in April 2013, David Taylor, known as DS7, stopped by The Chelsea, a gallery that was hosting a solo show of his, to find nine of his paintings missing. Five of the paintings, which had been...
Libraries are essentially massive symbols of free speech: entire multi-level buildings filled with ideas, many of them contradictory and messy and even violent, available for free public consumption....
David Carr, a columnist at The New York Times who covered business, culture and government in his Media Equation column and a professor in Boston University’s College of Communication, died Thursday...
Experts and Boston University professors convened Thursday at BU’s George Sherman Union Metcalf Ballroom to speak with a crowd of hundreds about espionage in the United States and to showcase a collection...
“The Day We Fight Back” is an online campaign that launched day in pursuit of ending mass government surveillance by the National Security Agency on the Internet. This campaign was created not only...
In recent times, there has been a surge of films illustrating the history of a person or event barely a few years in the past. The Social Network gave the history of Facebook even while the site continues...
Say the word “espionage” to a group of college students. What do they think of? James Bond? Austin Powers? The U.S. government? Whistleblower Edward Snowden has revamped the true meaning of the word...
