Reflections on Media and Politics
The public image of criminal justice is the trial: the courtroom, the jury of twelve, the evidence tested by argument, the verdict delivered after deliberation. It is the image enshrined in constitutions, dramatised in every legal film, an…
MHB Admin · July 7, 2026
For most of the internet's commercial history, digital products were built for an imaginary "average user" — a statistical composite who did not actually exist. Every visitor saw…
MHB Admin · June 29, 2026
The Freedom of Information Act, signed in 1966, was built on a radical and democratic premise: that government records belong, by default, to the public, and that officials should…
MHB Admin · June 19, 2026
The promise of modern commerce is that the gap between wanting something and holding it should approach zero. Tap a screen in the evening, and the package is at the door by mornin…
MHB Admin · June 16, 2026
In 2022, Warner Bros. Discovery did something that, a generation earlier, would have been almost unthinkable. It took a finished film — Batgirl , completed, scored, ready to relea…
MHB Admin · June 12, 2026
There is a genre of court case with names that read like absurdist theater: United States v. $124,700 in U.S. Currency . State v. One 1990 Toyota . The defendant in these cases is…
MHB Admin · June 8, 2026
The phrase "forever chemicals" is doing a great deal of quiet work. It sounds almost whimsical, the kind of marketing line a company might once have been proud of. In fact it desc…
MHB Admin · June 5, 2026
Ask someone why they play a game of chance and they will usually mention winning. Ask them, weeks later, what they actually remember, and you will hear something else entirely — t…
MHB Admin · June 5, 2026
The modern online casino has a branding problem, and its solution looks a lot like a film set. For an industry built on cold mathematics — house edges, RTP percentages, wagering r…
MHB Admin · June 5, 2026
The online casino market has never been bigger, and that is exactly why it pays to be choosy. For every well-run, properly licensed operator, there are sites that bury unfair term…
MHB Admin · June 4, 2026
The disappearance of a newspaper is one of the few civic catastrophes that erases its own coverage. When a factory closes, reporters write about the layoffs. When a hospital shuts…
MHB Admin · June 4, 2026
For most of the internet's commercial history, digital products were built for an imaginary "average user" — a statistical composite who did not actually exist. Every visitor saw…
MHB Admin · June 29, 2026
In 2022, Warner Bros. Discovery did something that, a generation earlier, would have been almost unthinkable. It took a finished film — Batgirl , completed, scored, ready to relea…
MHB Admin · June 12, 2026
The modern online casino has a branding problem, and its solution looks a lot like a film set. For an industry built on cold mathematics — house edges, RTP percentages, wagering r…
MHB Admin · June 5, 2026
The Freedom of Information Act, signed in 1966, was built on a radical and democratic premise: that government records belong, by default, to the public, and that officials should…
MHB Admin · June 19, 2026
Ask someone why they play a game of chance and they will usually mention winning. Ask them, weeks later, what they actually remember, and you will hear something else entirely — t…
MHB Admin · June 5, 2026
The disappearance of a newspaper is one of the few civic catastrophes that erases its own coverage. When a factory closes, reporters write about the layoffs. When a hospital shuts…
MHB Admin · June 4, 2026
The phrase "forever chemicals" is doing a great deal of quiet work. It sounds almost whimsical, the kind of marketing line a company might once have been proud of. In fact it desc…
MHB Admin · June 5, 2026
The promise of modern commerce is that the gap between wanting something and holding it should approach zero. Tap a screen in the evening, and the package is at the door by mornin…
MHB Admin · June 16, 2026