A History of Data from the Age of Reason to the Age of Algorithms

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Unpacking the Rise of 'Smart Authoritarianism' in China

Today's guest is Jennifer Lind, an associate professor of government at Dartmouth, a fellow at Chatham House London, and the author of the new book Autocracy 2.0: How China’s Rise Reinvented Tyranny, just out from Cornell Press. The book introduces the concept of 'smart authorita ...  Show more

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