Occupation: Journalist Birth: May 16, 1974
Globalization really is a concrete, fundamental fact in everybody's lives, and you really see that come to life in soccer stadiums..
I don't think Islam has really been understood as a product of globalization. It might be one of these instances where globalism and tribalism ultima….
And I know that sounds outrageous, but it's true. Such monopolies as Google, Facebook, Amazon, Apple are trying to stay with us from the moment that ….
Fifty years ago, the way that we consumed food was revolutionized. We began eating processed foods, and it seemed amazing. And then we woke up many d….
I think that globalization is partly responsible for the spread of the hostile, radical forms of Islam..
People are drawn to radical Islam because they feel their traditional ways of life threatened by the influx of KFC and Hollywood movies and the like..
Google, Facebook, Amazon, Apple are among the most powerful monopolies in the history of humanity. So, the problem is, is that they have tremendous a….
The New York Times and PBS are gatekeepers of a sort. And they perform that role of gatekeeping with a set of rules and aspirations about where they ….
Indeed, this is an important characteristic of the globalization debate: the tendency toward glorifying all things indigenous even when they deserve ….
I don't see tribalism ever really disappearing entirely. I just think that people are almost hardwired to identify as groups. And that sort of group ….
One of the fantastic things about Silicon Valley is that it's both the birthplace of technology and it was one of the birthplaces of the countercultu….
Most of the time the concept of globalization ends up sounding unnecessarily abstruse - even the name itself sounds clunky and highfalutin..
Is Islam a tribe or is it a force of globalization? Islam has certainly been studied as a local, tribalistic phenomenon. But Islam is also theoretica….
Soccer isn't the same as Bach or Buddhism. But it is often more deeply felt than religion, and just as much a part of the community's fabric, a repos….