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...

“The safety of the cables in the ocean is a national security issue, a precondition for the economy, and a matter of literal life and death” 🎧ICYMI: The Guardian Long Read podcast features an excerpt from @samanthsubramanian.bsky.social’s THE WEB BENEATH THE WAVES podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/e...

Happy US pub day to Sonia Faleiro’s THE ROBE AND THE SWORD: How Buddhist Extremism Is Shaping Modern Asia (Dec 4 in UK) “Sonia Faleiro is a master of narrative reportage, illuminating every topic she touches”—Fatima Bhutto learn more & get your copy now-> globalreports.columbia.edu/books/the-ro...

“The trauma of occupation created this violent nationalism that we are seeing right now. Occupied people tend to inherit a sense of humiliation.“ @tricyclemag.bsky.social interviewed Sonia Faleiro about THE ROBE AND THE SWORD and the lasting impact of colonialism. tricycle.org/article/the-...

"This meticulous reporting and analysis offers a sorely needed broad take on Buddhist extremism’s impact" —V.V. Ganeshananthan Sonia Faleiro's THE ROBE AND THE SWORD is on sale Nov 11 in US / Dec 4 in UK, but avail for preorder everywhere now Learn more-> globalreports.columbia.edu/books/the-ro...

“The Web Beneath the Waves is an elegant study of a hidden world.” @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social reviews Samanth Subramanian's THE WEB BENEATH THE WAVES (out now!) ⤵️ https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/power-hangs-by-a-literal-thread/

“Leagues sort of wandered into this sort of not really knowing what they’re getting into, just knowing that they could make a lot of money off of it.” Jonathan D. Cohen, author of LOSING BIG, isn’t sure sports leagues were prepared for the risks of online gambling www.cnn.com/2025/10/25/b...

Samanth is an amazing reporter and you should read his book. And also listen thank you.

Just how delicate is the Internet? After the AWS outage, @samanthsubramanian.bsky.social joins @lizzieohreally.bsky.social on the What Next: TBD podcast to explain how fragile the Internet's infrastructure really is, and how much that should worry us. 🎧 slate.com/podcasts/wha...

"'Web Beneath the Waves' suggests that privately owned physical cables are an integrally important source of geostrategic power today." Ian Kumekawa on Samanth Subramanian’s "The Web Beneath the Waves." https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/virtual-space-and-physical-infrastructure/

The best kind of delivery! Early copies of THE ROBE AND THE SWORD: How Buddhist Extremism Is Shaping Modern Asia, by writer & journalist Sonia Faleiro ✨ On sale Nov 11 in the US / Dec 4 in the UK, but available for preorder everywhere now! globalreports.columbia.edu/books/the-ro...

"I really wanted to write about fiction because I think it's always offered a safer space to explore difficult ideas without drawing too much fire" Megan Walsh, author of THE SUBPLOT, explores the complex world of Chinese fiction with @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social 🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/3WnJ...

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“Democratized finance should mean a fair chance to build wealth, not more ways to find out that the house always wins.” Jonathan D. Cohen, author of LOSING BIG, & Isaac Rose-Berman have some thoughts on the expansion of online gambling, for @nytopinion.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/o...

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www.foreignaffairs.com/reviews/milk... —delighted to see my latest @columbiagr.bsky.social book reviewed by Elizabeth Economy in the new issue of @foreignaffairs.com

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“The whole point, just like a social media app, is continuous engagement with the product.” Jonathan D. Cohen, author of LOSING BIG, joins Apple News in Conversation to talk about the seamless experience—and potential dangers—of online sports betting. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Glad to see this piece by Nikki Babri come out from @ucirvine.bsky.social's School of Humanities www.humanities.uci.edu/news/when-mi... (just ahead of my first UCI talk about my new book, a joint event with Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow and @amywilentz.bsky.social www.humanities.uci.edu/events/art-i... )

In his new book, The Web Beneath the Waves, @samanthsubramanian.bsky.social examines big tech’s role in subsea cables and growing geopolitical tensions around them. Read an excerpt on the threats that Taiwan faces from China: restofworld.org/2025/web-ben...

Meta has invested heavily in a submarine cable to Africa. What will it ask for in return? Read an excerpt of @samanthsubramanian.bsky.social's THE WEB BENEATH THE WAVES (out today!) at @thedialmag.bsky.social www.thedial.world/articles/new...

Happy pub day to @samanthsubramanian.bsky.social ’s THE WEB BENEATH THE WAVES: The Fragile Cables that Connect our World “A gripping look at the hidden infrastructure that binds the modern world—and the chaos that follows when it snaps.” —Kirkus Reviews ➡️ globalreports.columbia.edu/books/the-we...

One week from today, first @ucirvine.bsky.social book event on The Milk Tea Alliance, my latest @columbiagr.bsky.social book, a joint event that will be moderated by @amywilentz.bsky.social & feature Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow talking about her new book Atomic Dreams www.humanities.uci.edu/events/art-i...

New event! 📆24th Oct 🕡6:30pm CET Book Launch at Nowhere Bookstore, the Hauge, NL of "The Milk Tea Alliance: Inside Asia’s Struggle Against Autocracy and Beijing" W/ @jwassers.bsky.social & mod Pui Chi Lai Details: www.instagram.com/p/DPqUVJhjC8T/

🌟 THE FALL OF AFFIRMATIVE ACTION: Race, the Supreme Court, and the Future of Higher Education, by Justin Driver, is a @nytimes.com Book Review Editors' Choice! Learn more & get your copy now---> globalreports.columbia.edu/books/the-fa...