‘We Can’t Trust the Market with Scientific Knowledge’

Ansh Bhatnagar, [writing for *Tribune*](https://tribunemag.co.uk/2021/08/we-cant-trust-the-market-with-scientific-knowledge), the revived magazine of the British left: > Scientific knowledge doesn’t just need to be free to read – it needs to be owned and...

‘A corrective to the disinfo corrective’

Gabe Stein, in a smart critique of Joseph Berstein's Harper's takedown of 'Big Disinfo' Thus, explaining away attempts to understand the information ecosystem as merely the theater the Establishment needs “to build a political world that still makes sense,” as...

‘5 Ways Higher Ed Will Be Upended’

Arthur Levine—a reliable source for higher-ed disaster-porn—in a Chronicle piece (co-authored with Scott Van Pelt): Anticipating such upheaval, some institutions are already evolving. […] To look forward rather than backward is no easy feat. Colleges must confront...

‘Collective Funding to Reclaim Scholarly Publishing’

From my just-published Commonplace piece on the mission-aligned funding exchange: Any alternative to the prevailing scholarly communication system must be built atop a different funding model, one that excludes neither readers nor authors. In broad strokes, that model...