Jacob A. Bruggeman

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My public writing examines where the history of ideas, politics, and technologies intersect in modern American life.

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What Previous Government Reform Efforts Tell us About DOGEHow Musk's DOGE efforts compare with Clinton's attempts to "reinvent government" and minimize bureaucracy in the 1990s.

America’s Pernicious Rural Myth: An Interview with Steven Conn“Narratives about rural crisis seem to trap American discourse in a cycle of crisis and myth.”

Sinking the Clipper ChipAn influential tech debate from the 1990s reveals still-relevant lessons about the tensions between tech innovation, government efficiency and privacy

Coding the Dead: An Interview with Tamara Kneese — Cleveland Review of BooksIn Death Glitch: How Techno-Solutionism Fails Us in This Life and Beyond , technology scholar Tamara Kneese, director of Data & Society’s Algorithmic Impact Methods Lab and former green software researcher at Intel, explores the precarity of our data and digital selves.

The Pseudo-Ethics of HackersDoes information have an inherent right to freedom? Hackers and intelligence leakers believe so.

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