Tom Wheeler

Nov 2, 2024 | medium.com | Tom Wheeler

Tom Wheeler·Follow3 min read·--I came across an old review I wrote back in 2006, the year Jello Biafra released this 3-CD set. Besides music, Biafra also did several spoken word tours and released nine spoken word albums. In the Grip of Official Treason would be his final one. It was interesting revisiting this and watching what is going on around us today.

May 8, 2024 | thehill.com | Tom Wheeler

C-SPAN celebrated its 45th anniversary this year. Since 1979, the nonprofit cable network has given Americans a window on their democracy, continuously delivering nonpartisan, nonprofit, unfiltered insight into American government. Today, many see C-SPAN as a stodgy antiquity. But I was around when it was founded and remember well how radical an idea it was to allow citizens to watch the workings of their government in real time.

Apr 23, 2024 | foreignaffairs.com | Van Jackson |G. John Ikenberry |Tom Wheeler |Fareed Zakaria

In This Review In This Review Grand Strategies of the Left: The Foreign Policy of Progressive WorldmakingJackson helpfully maps the ideas of left-wing thinkers in debates over U.S. foreign policy. What unites these progressive critiques is the belief that the United States, guided by an old-style liberal internationalist vision, has failed to use its power to build a more peaceful, democratic, and egalitarian world.

Apr 23, 2024 | foreignaffairs.com | Tom Wheeler |G. John Ikenberry |Van Jackson |Fareed Zakaria

In This Review In This Review Techlash: Who Makes the Rules in the Digital Gilded Age? Likening today’s digital revolution to the late-nineteenth-century Gilded Age of unregulated capitalism, Wheeler makes a powerful case for U.S. government action to set rules that protect the public interest. In both eras, American society has grappled with technology-enabled corporate giants that acquired huge windfalls of wealth and private power.

Apr 23, 2024 | foreignaffairs.com | Alexandre Lefebvre |G. John Ikenberry |Tom Wheeler |Van Jackson

In This Review In This Review Liberalism as a Way of LifeIn this spirited defense of liberalism, Lefebvre celebrates the ordinary, everyday virtues of life in a free and open society. Most people define liberalism by its core institutions, such as individual rights, the rule of law, separation of powers, free elections, and open markets.