New in the CGR office! Early copies of WE WANT TO BELIEVE: How Aliens Went Mainstream and Why It Matters, by literary critic Adam Kirsch 🛸 On sale August 25 learn more & preorder your copy--> https://globalreports.columbia.edu/books/we-want-to-believe

New Article: How Can We Reclaim the Internet from Big Tech? Inside the Legal and Policy Battle Intelligent Machines explores law professor Olivier Sylvain's plan to rebalance control away from tech monopolies and protect small creators.

Why do we believe in UFOs despite all efforts to dismiss them? And what do we reveal about ourselves when we talk and think about them? 🛸 WE WANT TO BELIEVE: How Aliens Went Mainstream and Why It Matters, is out 8/25 👽 learn more--> https://globalreports.columbia.edu/books/we-want-to-believe

Who bets best, algorithms or fans? Join us for a conversation about what happens when betting markets & soccer fandom collide. With LOSING BIG author Jonathan Cohen & @tu-dortmund.de prof Andreas Groll. 🗓️ Next Mon June 22 at 4pm 📍German House of Soccer NYC Register now-> www.ghos-dfb.de

ICYMI: @oliviersylvain.bsky.social, author of RECLAIMING THE INTERNET, joined The Indicator from @planetmoney.bsky.social podcast to talk about how we lost the plot when it comes to free speech on the internet, and what we can do to get back on track. 🎧 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

“These are companies that engineer the online experience. This isn't about free speech, but about optimizing their bottom line” Olivier Sylvain, author of RECLAIMING THE INTERNET, explores how we can give power back to the people on @planetmoney.bsky.social The Indicator www.npr.org/2026/06/03/n...

"Parties have done good things. There have been moments in American history where strong parties actually were part of what moved America in different directions" 🎧 ICYMI: Julian Zelizer explored the potential of partisanship on the @brennancenter.org's The Briefing podcast youtu.be/e518vbxiK_E?...

We are writing a book! globalreports.columbia.edu/books/our-he... Drops October 2026 with @abduwelia.bsky.social Reporting this book was such an adventure. This is a story I never thought I’d have access to, and I’m thrilled to share it w readers who watch either the Syria and/or China space.

Happy UK pub day to THE BURNING GROUND: Oil and Militancy in Nigeria Noo Saro-Wiwa’s incisive and personal investigation of the oil industry in her home country of Nigeria reveals a haunting tale of corruption in a region struggling with contradiction ⭐ uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

“We hear the story of thousands of Uyghurs who travelled to Syria to gain battlefield experience fighting in the Syrian civil war. Are these people freedom fighters? Or are they the now battle-hardened militants China always feared?” one.npr.org/i/nx-s1-5831...

This is also the topic of a forthcoming @columbiagr.bsky.social book by Feng, which will be out in mid-October.

We love to see it! Sonia Faliero's THE ROBE AND THE SWORD is in great company on Aatish Taseer's list of essential reading on Buddhism in Asia for the @nytimes.com https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/14/t-magazine/buddhism-books-history-reading-list.html

"When people are convinced that they know a secret, world-shaking truth, they are willing to wait a long time for vindication." Adam Kirsch explores why we still believe the truth is out there, and the government is covering it up, for @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

"When people are convinced that they know a secret, world-shaking truth, they are willing to wait a long time for vindication." Adam Kirsch explores why we still believe the truth is out there, and the government is covering it up, for @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

This conversation will change the way you think about the internet Join us for a conversation about the network of undersea cables that connect our world—feat experts across business, engineering, and journalism 🗓️ Wed 5/6, 12pmET / virtual 🛜 register now! globalreports.columbia.edu/events/244/t...

Nice to see the company my @columbiagr.bsky.social book is keeping at JF Books in DC

Become a CJR member today—our independent, nonprofit journalism depends on you: www.cjr.org/uncategorize...

Livestream event! Join us for a conversation about the backbone of modern life—the robust network of delicate undersea cables that makeup the internet—featuring experts across business, engineering, and journalism. 🗓️ Wed May 6, 12pm ET Everyone is welcome! Just be sure to register by 5/1 ⤵️

Heading to DC to do this event tomorrow evening at the great JF bookstore with Nan Z. Da (as well as a similar dialogue at a GW forum on China at 1:30 tomorrow) www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticket...

"There are between 500 and 550 of these cables around the world. Together, add up their lengths, and it’s close to a million miles of cable that have been laid." @samanthsubramanian.bsky.social went deep on THE WEB BENEATH THE WAVES on the Ideas of India podcast 🎧 www.mercatus.org/ideasofindia...

#UpperManhattanBookstoreCrawl 2026 Celebrate with us for Indie Bookstore Day! Starting Sun, April 19th through Sat, April 25th, visit participating stores and pick up a stamp card. Receive a stamp by making a purchase at each store. Get all 5 stamps and you could win a bookstore prize pack!

Next Friday (April 24), I'll be back at IU, where I taught for most of the first part of my career, speaking on The Milk Tea Alliance (first time I'll give a live talk where I can hold up a copy of the Taiwan edition) at noon, details of here events.iu.edu/easc/event/2... cc @columbiagr.bsky.social

Livestream event! Join us for a conversation about the backbone of modern life—the robust network of delicate undersea cables that makeup the internet—featuring experts across business, engineering, and journalism. 🗓️ Wed May 6, 12pm ET Everyone is welcome! Just be sure to register by 5/1 ⤵️

Happy US pub day to THE BURNING GROUND: Oil and Militancy in Nigeria (May 28 in UK) Noo Saro-Wiwa’s incisive investigation of the oil industry in her home country of Nigeria reveals a haunting tale of corruption in a region struggling with contradiction ⭐ globalreports.columbia.edu/books/the-bu...

It's always great to get learn via Good Reads that someone new has come across, read & liked one's no longer new book/I was gratified to see the March review below of my 2020 @columbiagr.bsky.social book Vigil: Hong Kong on the Brink & February review below of my 2025 CGR book The Milk Tea Alliance

“It's time we be far more serious about regulation than we have been. And I think the evidence is plain that something has to happen” @oliviersylvain.bsky.social author of RECLAIMING THE INTERNET talks about holding social media companies accountable on WhoWhatWhy podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

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...