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<title><![CDATA[Ian Bogost - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/34468.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Ian Bogost]]></description><category domain="34468">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[College Is Coming Apart]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ian Bogost</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Successive, overlapping crises reveal that American higher education makes no sense.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The End of College Life]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/the-end-of-college-life/ar-AA1BWh4t?ocid=BingNewsSerp</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 30 Mar 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ian Bogost</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The start of spring semester'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' is a hopeful time on college campuses. Students fill the quads and walkways, wearing salmon shorts or strappy tank tops. Music plays; frisbees fly. As a career academic, I have been a party to this catalog-cover scene for more than 30 years running. It...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Columbia's Retreat to 'Virtual Learning']]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/careersandeducation/columbia-has-resorted-to-pedagogy-theater/ar-AA1nB7fd</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ian Bogost</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Columbia University shut down all in-person classes on Monday, and faculty and staff were encouraged to work remotely. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'We need a reset,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' President Minouche Shafik said, in reference to what she called the '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'rancor'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' around pro-Palestinian rallies on campus, as well as...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Real Problem With American Universities]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/the-real-problem-with-american-universities/ar-BB1hvkFr</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 01 Feb 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ian Bogost</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Just about everyone in America seems to be angry at higher education.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Congress'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' is angry.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' State governments'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' are angry.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Donors'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' are angry. Parents are angry because schools are so expensive, and students are angry because they aren'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t getting what they paid for. Just'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' 36...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Age of Goggles Has Arrived]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jun 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ian Bogost</author>
							<description><![CDATA['&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Vision Pro feels familiar, yet it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s entirely new.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' That'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s how Apple'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s CEO, Tim Cook, introduced the company'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s new computer goggles at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference on Monday. The Vision Pro headset, which resembles a glass scuba mask with a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Blue Check Marks Were Always Shameless]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/blue-check-marks-were-always-shameless/ar-AA192fVD</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 25 Mar 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ian Bogost</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Many years ago, when picking up my teenage daughter from an outdoor mall, I found myself surrounded by her friends. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'You'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'re'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' verified,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' one of them said, gushing. At first I thought this was some new youth slang term for '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'cool'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' or even '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'uncool.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' But...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[America Built an Actually Good Airport]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/news/america-built-an-actually-good-airport/ar-AA17Oonz</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 25 Feb 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ian Bogost</author>
							<description><![CDATA[LaGuardia is reborn, and it has a message for the nation.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[We're Witnessing the End of Social Media]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/we-re-witnessing-the-end-of-social-media/ar-AA13Y8V5</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ian Bogost</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s over. Facebook is in decline, Twitter in chaos. Mark Zuckerberg'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s empire has lost hundreds of billions of dollars in value and laid off 11,000 people, with its ad business in peril and its metaverse fantasy in irons. Elon Musk'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s takeover of Twitter has caused...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[I Turned My Home Into a Fortress of Surveillance]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/i-turned-my-home-into-a-fortress-of-surveillance/ar-AA132UGY</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ian Bogost</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In America, a home is a castle, for better and worse. Thanks to John Locke'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s labor theory of property, the American Dream, mortgage-interest deductions, suburbanization, and all the rest, this'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' castle doctrine'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' became a life philosophy for the middle class: Your house is an...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[When AI Becomes a Ouija Board]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/when-ai-becomes-a-ouija-board/ar-AAYsscz</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ian Bogost</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Google's sentient chatbot shows us where we're headed'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'and it's not good.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Elon Musk, Baloney King]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2022/04/elon-musk-buy-twitter-billionaire-play-money/629573/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ian Bogost</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The world's richest man has invented a new way to disregard the truth.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Apple's Empty Grandstanding About Privacy]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/01/apples-hypocritical-defense-data-privacy/581680/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 02 Feb 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ian Bogost</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The company enables the surveillance that supposedly offends its values.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Elon Musk's Fait Accompli]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/09/elon-musk-and-tesla-reach-settlement-sec/571738/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 30 Sep 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ian Bogost</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Musk and Tesla have settled the SEC'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s securities fraud lawsuit. The outcome feels like the end of an era for Musk.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Apple: This Is What It Really Looks Like to 'Change the World']]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/08/apple-1-trillion-market-cap/566672/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 04 Aug 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ian Bogost</author>
							<description><![CDATA[This is what it really looks like to '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'change the world.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Petty Nextdoor Posts Reveal About America]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/07/nextdoor-american-communities/561746/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jul 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ian Bogost</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The hyperlocal social-media platform highlights small grievances'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'and proves that neighbors have more in common than they think.]]></description>
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