Our interview this week is with Francis Fukuyama, a fellow and teacher at Stanford and a renowned scholar and public intellectual for at least three decades. He is the coauthor of the Report of the Working Group on Platform Scale. It’s insightful on the structural issues that have enhanced the power of platforms
Cyberlaw
Episode 280: Challenging Edward Snowden
In this episode I cross swords with John Samples of the Cato Institute on Silicon Valley’s efforts to disadvantage conservative speech and what to do about it. I accuse him of Panglossian libertarianism; he challenges me to identify any way in which bringing government into the dispute will make things better. I…
Second Annual Triple Entente Beer Summit
Next Thursday, February 18, from 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm, Alan Cohn and I will be speaking at the “2016 Triple Entente Beer Summit” at the Old Engine 12 Firehouse Restaurant (1626 North Capitol Street Northwest, Washington, DC). This will be the second annual live recording of the three podcasts – Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast,…
Triple Entente Beer Summit
I hope you will join us on Thursday, May 7 from 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm for the “Triple Entente Beer Summit” at The Washington Firehouse (1626 North Capitol Street Northwest, Washington, DC). This live recording of the three podcasts – Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast, Lawfare Podcast, and Rational Security – will be your chance…
Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast – Interview with Mary DeRosa
Our guest for episode 64 of the Cyberlaw Podcast is Mary DeRosa, the chief lawyer for the National Security Council during the early years of the Obama Administration, and now a Distinguished Visitor at Georgetown University Law Center. We ask Mary to walk us through a hypothetical set of NSC meetings on the Sony…
Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast – Interview with Paul Rosenzweig
Episode 60 of the Cyberlaw Podcast features Paul Rosenzweig, founder of Red Branch Consulting PLLC and Senior Advisor to The Chertoff Group. Most importantly he was a superb Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy in the Department of Homeland Security when I was Assistant Secretary.
Paul discourses on the latest developments in ICANN, almost…