Jacob Weisberg | The New York Review of Books

The Lucky One

Who was the “real” Reagan behind the carapace of vagueness, self-delusion, and contradiction?

Reagan: His Life and Legend

by Max Boot

March 27, 2025 issue

The Autocracy App

The growing consensus is that Facebook’s power needs checking. Fewer agree on what its greatest harms are—and still fewer on what to do about them.

Antisocial Media: How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy

by Siva Vaidhyanathan

Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now

by Jaron Lanier

October 25, 2018 issue

The Digital Poorhouse

Algorithms are developing their capabilities to regulate humans faster than humans are figuring out how to regulate algorithms.

Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism

by Safiya Umoja Noble

Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor

by Virginia Eubanks

June 7, 2018 issue

More Rules of Impeachment

October 26, 2017 issue

Impeachment?

October 12, 2017 issue

What Are Impeachable Offenses?

Are impeachment proceedings against Donald Trump warranted?

The Case for Impeachment

by Allan J. Lichtman

Impeachment: A Citizen’s Guide

by Cass R. Sunstein

September 28, 2017 issue

Letter

Burton Caine

Impeachment?

October 12, 2017 issue

Letter

Allan Lichtman

More Rules of Impeachment

October 26, 2017 issue

How Megyn Kelly Won

Settle for More

by Megyn Kelly

The Loudest Voice in the Room: How the Brilliant, Bombastic Roger Ailes Built Fox News—and Divided a Country

by Gabriel Sherman

March 23, 2017 issue

They’ve Got You, Wherever You Are

The relentless expansion of the most powerful attention-capture machine ever built

The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads

by Tim Wu

Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley

by Antonio García Martínez

October 27, 2016 issue

We Are Hopelessly Hooked

Our sudden transformation into device people

Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age

by Sherry Turkle

Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other

by Sherry Turkle

Reading the Comments: Likers, Haters, and Manipulators at the Bottom of the Web

by Joseph M. Reagle Jr.

Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products

by Nir Eyal with Ryan Hoover

February 25, 2016 issue

TV vs. the Internet: Who Will Win?

Is it now springtime for the old television machers?

Television Is the New Television: The Unexpected Triumph of Old Media in the Digital Age

by Michael Wolff

Over the Top: How the Internet Is (Slowly but Surely) Changing the Television Industry

by Alan Wolk

October 8, 2015 issue