Franklin Foer
American journalist and author, former editor of The New Republic, known for books including How Soccer Explains the World and World Without Mind.
Books
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1. The Last Politician
Inside the Extraordinary World of the New American Populists
An urgent, deeply reported account of the battle for control of Congress that traces how ambition, money, media, and insurgent movements have hollowed out norms and remade legislators into partisan operators; it profiles the strategists and funders who engineered that transformation, the insurgent politicians who exploited it, and the reform-minded figures trying to preserve deliberation and democratic accountability, while explaining the institutional incentives and power plays that make compromise rare and democracy precarious.
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2. O Mundo Que Não Pensa
The Existential Threat of Big Tech
Analisa como as grandes plataformas digitais concentraram poder sobre informação, cultura e economia, transformando algoritmos e interfaces em árbitros das decisões públicas e privadas; mostra que essa concentração mercantiliza a atenção, empobrece a imprensa e as instituições democráticas, e corrói privacidade e autonomia individual. Defende que a consequência é um enfraquecimento da capacidade coletiva de pensar criticamente e imaginar alternativas, e propõe medidas como maior regulação, ação antitruste e uma revalorização de práticas cívicas e culturais para resgatar espaços de pensamento independente.