Living with the devil we know

Rana Dasgupta's poignant piece, "The demise of the nation state" (See Guardian, April 05, 2018), traces the collapse of a four-century institution to a variety of "countervailing 21st century forces": 'declining political authority', 'apocalyptic nationalism', 'masochistic political style', 'wall-building and xenophobia', as well as 'mythology and race theory'. These have...

Facebook and the future of online privacy

Chris Hughes, a co-founder of Facebook, recently noted that the public scrutiny of Facebook is "very much overdue," declaring that "it's shocking to me that they didn't have to answer more of these questions earlier on." Leaders in the information technology sector, especially in Europe, have been warning of the...