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Franklin Foer is an American journalist and author, known for his tenure as editor of The New Republic and his writings on technology, culture, and politics. His work often examines the intersection of ideas, media, and power in modern society.
Known for: How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization, World Without Mind: The Existential Threat of Big Tech
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How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization
This book explores how soccer serves as a lens through which to understand globalization, politics, economics, and cultural identity. Franklin Foer travels across continents to reveal how the world's ...
World Without Mind: The Existential Threat of Big Tech
In this provocative work, Franklin Foer explores how the rise of technology giants such as Google, Facebook, Apple, and Amazon has reshaped human thought, creativity, and individuality. He argues that...
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Serbia and the Politics of Nationalism
When I arrived in Belgrade, the remains of war still lingered—not just in the buildings, but in the people’s eyes. Here, the connection between soccer and nationalism was raw and frighteningly direct. Red Star Belgrade, one of the country’s premier clubs, became a rallying point for Serbian identity...
From How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization
Scotland and Sectarianism
In Glasgow, soccer’s glow is colored in green and blue, the hues of two rival sects locked in an emotional and historical standoff. Celtic and Rangers are not merely clubs—they are embodiments of religious and political identity. Celtic stands for the Catholic, often Irish-descended community; Range...
From How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization
The Tradition of Intellectual Independence
I begin by tracing a lineage that stretches from the Enlightenment to the liberal imagination of the twentieth century—a tradition grounded in the sanctity of the autonomous mind. Thinkers like John Milton, John Stuart Mill, and Ralph Waldo Emerson taught that society thrives when individuals reason...
From World Without Mind: The Existential Threat of Big Tech
Google and the Centralization of Knowledge
Google’s ambition—to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible—sounds almost spiritual. Yet in its quest to catalogue knowledge, the company transformed knowledge into data. Its algorithms, optimized for efficiency, subtly displaced the messy, contested, interpretive proces...
From World Without Mind: The Existential Threat of Big Tech
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Franklin Foer is an American journalist and author, known for his tenure as editor of The New Republic and his writings on technology, culture, and politics. His work often examines the intersection of ideas, media, and power in modern society.
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