Olivier Sylvain is a professor at Fordham Law School and the author of a new book titled Reclaiming the Internet: How Big Tech Took Control—and How We Can Take It Back, published by Columbia Global Reports. I interviewed him at Book Culture, a bookstore on 112th Street in New York City.

"In some communities, a generation has grown up without any memory of pristine water or air—and given their lack of education, little reason to mourn it." Check out @thedialmag.bsky.social for an excerpt from Noo Saro-Wiwa's THE BURNING GROUND (on sale 4/14) ⤵️ www.thedial.world/articles/new...

I'm happy to report that my book, Reclaiming the Internet (Columbia Global Reports), came out last week. globalreports.columbia.edu/books/reclai...

"The good news is that this mess is not intractable. There is a way out." @ganeshsitaraman.bsky.social, author of WHY FLYING IS MISERABLE, explains what happened to the airline industry to make flying so awful, for @nytopinion.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/o...

1/ Oil extraction has devastated the ecosystem in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria, and upended the lives of the communities who depended on it. Noo Saro-Wiwa, a writer from Oginoland, reflects on what it’s like to see your home transformed for “black gold.” www.thedial.world/articles/new...

⭐TOMORROW!⭐

March is #IndiePressMonth! Celebrate with us and take a journey through the fascinating landscape of Chinese literature with THE SUBPLOT: What China Is Reading and Why It Matters, by journalist Megan Walsh ⭐ get your copy at your favorite indie bookstore https://bookshop.org/a/78888/9781735913667

Next Tuesday in NYC! Join us at Book Culture for a conversation about RECLAIMING THE INTERNET with author Olivier Sylvain and Justin Hendrix, CEO & editor of Tech Policy Press 🗓️ Tues 3/24, 7pm at Book Culture (112th St) 🛜 register now--> forms.gle/pGj7uqgnUsVi...

Just arrived at the CGR office! Early copies of THE BURNING GROUND: Oil and Militancy in Nigeria, by journalist Noo Saro-Wiwa ✨ On sale April 14, but available for preorder now! https://globalreports.columbia.edu/books/the-burning-ground

🚨📚 New book alert 🚨📚 "Reclaiming the Internet: How Big Tech Took Control—and How We Can Take It Back" (Columbia Global Reports - @columbiagr.bsky.social) by Fordham Law Professor Olivier Sylvain (@oliviersylvain.bsky.social) is out today.

DC! NYC! Come see Olivier talk about his book: ➡️ TOMORROW Wed 3/18, 7pm Politics & Prose at The Wharf, DC with @nancyscola.bsky.social learn more: politics-prose.com/olivier-sylv... ➡️ next Tue 3/24, 7pm @bookculture.com NYC with @justinhendrix.bsky.social register now: forms.gle/pGj7uqgnUsVi...

D.C. people, I'll be in conversation this Wednesday night at the @politicsprose.bsky.social on the Wharf with Fordham Law's @oliviersylvain.bsky.social about his brand-new book, "Reclaiming the Internet: How Big Tech Took Control—and How We Can Take It Back"...

Happy pub day to RECLAIMING THE INTERNET: How Big Tech Took Control—and How We Can Take It Back, by Olivier Sylvain “A must-read for those interested in AI law & policy, offering vital insights on what works in technology regulation.” —Frank Pasquale 🛜 globalreports.columbia.edu/books/reclai...

"When the Supreme Court legalized sports gambling surely we did not anticipate what we now have, which is basically the gamblification of everything" ICYMI: Jonathan Cohen, author of LOSING BIG, definitely has concerns about prediction markets, on Prof G Markets 🎧 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/%...

“For island economies to be cast out of the internet, even for a brief while, would really plunge economies into chaos” 🎧 ICYMI: Samanth Subramanian, author of THE WEB BENEATH THE WAVES, talked about the fragility of internet infrastructure with BBC Start the Week podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/u...

"The argument to reclaim the internet is to reclaim the story that there is something about the internet that offers great promise that has been lost." Olivier Sylvain joined Keen On America to talk about his new book RECLAIMING THE INTERNET (out next week!) keenon.substack.com/p/how-to-rec...

"When the Supreme Court legalized sports gambling surely we did not anticipate what we now have, which is basically the gamblification of everything." Jonathan Cohen, author of LOSING BIG, definitely has concerns about prediction markets, on Prof G Markets 🎧 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/%...

"A more varied world order needs institutional reform, however, Mr. Stubb says. He lays out an optimistic, even slightly utopian plan in his new book, The Triangle of Power." Read more about that slightly utopian plan in THE TRIANGLE OF POWER out now from CGR🔻 www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/w...

“Expertly mapping the internet’s past and present, Sylvain envisions a far better future for online life in this refreshing call for reform.”— @frankpasquale.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy RECLAIMING THE INTERNET is on sale 3/17 but avail for preorder now! 🛜 globalreports.columbia.edu/books/reclai...

“Drawing on Finland’s Cold War–era tradition of ‘pragmatic realism,’ Stubb calls on Western leaders to work with the East & the South to rebuild a global system of rules-based cooperation centered on the UN” @foreignaffairs.com reviews THE TRIANGLE OF POWER ⤵️ www.foreignaffairs.com/reviews/tria...

“A book on the state of the world that should be noted by anybody wanting to understand our present predicament.” @wsj.com reviews Alexander Stubb’s THE TRIANGLE OF POWER 🔻 www.wsj.com/arts-culture...

If you're watching football today you might notice an ad or 2 (or 3) for sports betting. The NFL used to be strongly opposed to gambling, but now it seems you can’t escape it What's behind this gambling boom & just how risky is it? Find out with LOSING BIG globalreports.columbia.edu/books/losing...

RIP mass market paperbacks, but good news, if you still want a short, lively book you can fit in your pocket, @columbiagr.bsky.social has got you covered www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/b...

"I don't think there are sufficient consumer protections in place, especially for young people, that can prevent them from running into trouble." Jonathan D. Cohen, author of LOSING BIG, joined CNBC's Squawk Box to talk about the risks behind the rise of sports gambling www.cnbc.com/video/2026/0...

We love to see them in the office! Early copies of RECLAIMING THE INTERNET: How Big Tech Took Control—and How We Can Take It Back, by leading legal scholar Olivier Sylvan 🛜 On sale March 17, but available for preorder now! https://globalreports.columbia.edu/books/reclaiming-the-internet

Can we fix the internet? In RECLAIMING THE INTERNET, leading legal scholar Olivier Sylvain dismantles the libertarian mythology that shaped internet law and calls the protection of users over platforms. 🛜 on sale 3/17, but available for preorder now! globalreports.columbia.edu/books/reclai...

ICYMI: Finnish President Alexander Stubb joined Christiane Amanpour on CNN from Davos yesterday. Learn more about President Stubb's view of a new world order with his new book THE TRIANGLE OF POWER ⤵️ globalreports.columbia.edu/books/the-tr... www.cnn.com/2026/01/21/t...

“The monks leading these violent movements seem driven not by a pursuit of nirvana in the afterlife, but by a quest for dominance in this one.” 🎧 ICYMI: @theguardian.com Long Read podcast features an excerpt from Sonia Faleiro’s THE ROBE AND THE SWORD podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

“Should we really be forcing gambling down people’s throat and making everyone see every news event as a way to make money?” 🎧 ICYMI: Jonathan D. Cohen joined Brian Lehrer to talk about the impact of prediction markets like Polymarket and Kalshi https://www.wnyc.org/story/betting-on-everything/

Happy pub day to THE TRIANGLE OF POWER: Rebalancing the New World Order, by President of Finland Alexander Stubb “Stubb identifies the central weakness in the international system today and has an ingenious plan to address it.” —Fareed Zakaria ▶️ globalreports.columbia.edu/books/the-tr...

"The length of a novella, it makes a snappy point about a meaty topic: namely, that far from being weightless, the cloud is anchored firmly in the real world." @economist.com reviews @samanthsubramanian.bsky.social ky.social's THE WEB BENEATH THE WAVES ⤵️ www.economist.com/culture/2025...

"The Robe and the Sword is an uncomfortable book, and that is its virtue. Faleiro brings moral clarity to terrain that is usually tiptoed around." @thetimes.com reviews Sonia Faleiro's THE ROBE AND THE SWORD ⤵️ www.thetimes.com/culture/book...

"The length of a novella, it makes a snappy point about a meaty topic: namely, that far from being weightless, the cloud is anchored firmly in the real world." @economist.com reviews @samanthsubramanian.bsky.social's THE WEB BENEATH THE WAVES ⤵️ www.economist.com/culture/2025...

In THE TRIANGLE OF POWER, President of Finland Alexander Stubb argues that a new international system is taking shape, driven by three major forces: the Global West, the Global East, and the Global South ▶️ on sale Jan 13, but available for preorder now-> globalreports.columbia.edu/books/the-tr...

Great looking new issue of @indexoncensorship.org just out, focus on Gen Z activism (also a Cindy Yu commentary on censoring bad news in China), glad to be in it w/interview on & excerpt from my second @columbiagr.bsky.social book www.indexoncensorship.org/2025/12/gen-...

With THE TRIANGLE OF POWER, Finnish President Alexander Stubb calls for dignified foreign policy—and warns that unless the West learns to listen, it will lose its place in the world it once built. ▶️ on sale January 13, but available for preorder now--> globalreports.columbia.edu/books/the-tr...

New in the CGR office! Early copies of THE TRIANGLE OF POWER: Rebalancing the New World Order, by President of Finland Alexander Stubb ▶️ On sale January 13 in the US (and in the UK with @bitebackpublishing.bsky.social) but available for preorder now! globalreports.columbia.edu/books/the-tr...

Go deeper into President Stubb's argument for a new world order with his forthcoming book, THE TRIANGLE OF POWER On sale January 13 but available for preorder now from CGR in the US and @bitebackpublishing.bsky.social in the UK globalreports.columbia.edu/books/the-tr...

“Mr. Subramanian is an elegant and witty writer.... He makes of his subject a fascinating travelogue.” @wsj.com reviews @samanthsubramanian.bsky.social’s THE WEB BENEATH THE WAVES ⤵️ www.wsj.com/arts-culture...

"As Subramanian's excellent new book makes clear, the internet does indeed consist (at least in part) of a vast network of glass tubes—fiber-optic cables." LARB reviewed @samanthsubramanian.bsky.social's THE WEB BENEATH THE WAVES (out now in the US & UK!) ⤵️ lareviewofbooks.org/article/powe...

"Often struggles against colonialism seem impossible, but at some point something changes and there's a space for seemingly impossible struggles to win." @jwassers.bsky.social talks about THE MILK TEA ALLIANCE with @madeinchinajournal.com 🎧⤵️ madeinchinajournal.com/2025/11/24/e...

Happy UK pub day to @samanthsubramanian.bsky.social's THE WEB BENEATH THE WAVES: The Fragile Cables that Connect our World (of course still on sale now in the US!) “A brief, lyrical survey of the internet’s underwater infrastructure.” —@economist.com ↪️Get your copy: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

Great to get to talk about Hong Kong in 2019 & after with Ching Kwan Lee, author of the important new @harvardpress.bsky.social book Forever Hong Kong, podcast moderated expertly by @yangyangcheng.bsky.social for @madeinchinajournal.com madeinchinajournal.com/2025/11/24/e...

"The monks leading these violent movements seem driven not by a pursuit of nirvana in the afterlife, but by a quest for dominance in this one." Read an excerpt from Sonia Faleiro's THE ROBE AND THE SWORD (on sale now in the US / Dec 4 in UK) in @theguardian.com ⤵️ www.theguardian.com/news/2025/no...

Flying somewhere for Thanksgiving? We have just the book for you! In WHY FLYING IS MISERABLE: AND HOW TO FIX IT, policy expert @ganeshsitaraman.bsky.social explains how flying became so, well, miserable, and what we can do to fix it. ✈️ globalreports.columbia.edu/books/why-fl...

🌟 THE WEB BENEATH THE WAVES: The Fragile Cables that Connect Our World, by @samanthsubramanian.bsky.social is an @economist.com Best Book of 2025! Learn more & get your copy now-> https://globalreports.columbia.edu/books/the-web-beneath-the-waves

Why did sports leagues go from opposing gambling to embracing it? "The short answer is money. The long answer is also money." Jonathan D. Cohen, author of LOSING BIG, joined Sports in America with David Greene to unpack the rapid rise of legalized sports gambling podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

"It's a speculative instrument purely for my own use and my own entertainment, which to me qualifies it as gambling rather than investing" Jonathan D. Cohen joined @cbssundaymorning.bsky.social to explain why he'd argue Kalshi is more about gambling than it is investing 📺 ⤵️ youtu.be/iGx-kqf_840?...

"We must be very clear that when a violent Buddhist monk attempts to use history & religion to justify their actions, they are being duplicitous" Sonia Faleiro joined @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social Buddhist Studies to talk about her new book THE ROBE AND THE SWORD 🎧 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

"It's sort of an unnecessary crisis of their own making." Jonathan D Cohen, author of LOSING BIG, joined @pbsnews.org to talk about the impact of the sports betting industry and the MLB's response to the league's latest scandal. Check out his segment 📺 ⤵️ www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...