New podcast! Justin Hendrix spoke to Greg Epstein, who drew on lessons from his vocation as a humanist chaplain at Harvard and MIT to write a new book, just out from MIT Press, called Tech Agnostic: How Technology Became the World's Most Powerful Religion, and Why It Desperately Needs a Reformation. https://www.techpolicy.press/salvation-abundance-apocalypse-is-technology-the-worlds-most-powerful-religion/

"America PAC door knockers were flown to Michigan, driven in the back of a U-Haul, and told they’d have to pay hotel bills unless they met unrealistic quotas. One was surprised they were working to elect Donald Trump. " https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-america-pac-blitz-canvassing-michigan-uhaul/

In the Google search trial, the court's reliance on evidence of how consumer behavior is shaped by what products and services are available by default marks a pivotal moment at the intersection of antitrust and behavioral economics, writes Zander Arnao: https://www.techpolicy.press/google-search-antitrust-ruling-is-a-triumph-for-behavioral-economics/