Gideon Lewis-Kraus

1 month ago | businessandamerica.com | Gideon Lewis-Kraus

“The Population Bomb” transformed regional unease into a global panic. India, in less than two years, subjected millions of citizens to compulsory sterilization. China rolled out a series of initiatives—culminating in the infamous one-child policy—that included punitive fines, obligatory IUD insertions, and unwanted abortions. Ehrlich can hardly be blamed for the most coercive incarnations of population control. He might, however, be accused of impeccable comic timing.

1 month ago | newyorker.com | Gideon Lewis-Kraus

“The Population Bomb” transformed regional unease into a global panic. India, in less than two years, subjected millions of citizens to compulsory sterilization. China rolled out a series of initiatives—culminating in the infamous one-child policy—that included punitive fines, obligatory IUD insertions, and unwanted abortions. Ehrlich can hardly be blamed for the most coercive incarnations of population control. He might, however, be accused of impeccable comic timing.

2 months ago | newyorker.com | Gideon Lewis-Kraus

In the spring of 2014, a trans-anarchist Google engineer petitioned the White House to arrest our national decline. The plan was snappy: “1. Retire all government employees with full pensions. 2. Transfer administrative authority to the tech industry. 3. Appoint Eric Schmidt CEO of America.” Schmidt, then the chairman of Google, was an avatar of technocratic liberalism.

Oct 21, 2024 | newyorker.com | Gideon Lewis-Kraus

In the past few years, a secretive consortium of technologists and investors has spent almost a billion dollars to purchase about ninety square miles of farmland on the eastern reaches of San Francisco Bay. The intention is to create a bespoke suburban oasis. In circles where the terraforming of Mars is a question of when rather than why, a planned community on the order of a Levittown or an Irvine ranks as a relatively modest ambition.

Oct 21, 2024 | link.newyorker.com | Gideon Lewis-Kraus |Adam Wagner |Rebecca A. Goldstein |Adam Thompson

When I initially pitched my story on Alpha Kappa Alpha—the oldest historically Black sorority in America, and one that claims, among many other impressive women, Vice-President Kamala Harris as a member—I knew what to expect. For two years, I dated a woman in another historically Black sorority, and though I knew her hopes, her dreams, and her middle name, she refused to talk to me about the inner workings of her sorority.