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Nathan Schneider

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Nathan Schneider teaches media studies at the University of Colorado Boulder and is most recently the author of Everything for Everyone: The Radical Tradition That Is Shaping the Next Economy. His website is nathanschneider.info.

February 2019

  • ‘Democracy has come by its demise honestly.’

    double quotation markIt’s not enough to defend democracy – now is the time to advance it

    Nathan Schneider
    If democracy is to recapture the world’s imagination, it will have to show it can deliver a better way of life than the autocrats

September 2018

  • coops

    Ideas for America
    double quotation markWhat if employees co-owned the business where they work?

    Nathan Schneider
    A quiet consensus is emerging across the political divide: Bernie Sanders and Paul Ryan both advocate enabling Americans to co-own the businesses where they work

July 2017

  • net neutrality protest

    double quotation markA people-owned internet exists. Here is what it looks like

    Nathan Schneider
    The future of the internet is in peril, thanks to surveillance, net neutrality and other assaults. But there are communities that are building their own

September 2016

  • The Twitter logo and trading information

    double quotation markHere's my plan to save Twitter: let's buy it

    Nathan Schneider
    Corporate sharks are circling around the platform we love. But there is another way: shared ownership, where the community takes control

August 2016

  • clinton

    double quotation markDemocrats' claim that 'America is already great' just borrows Republicans' rhetoric

    Nathan Schneider
    In an effort to woo Republicans fed up with Trump, the Democrats are all but wrapping themselves in the star-spangled banner and chanting U-S-A

April 2016

  • wall street

    double quotation markBreaking up the banks might make things worse. Instead, let's take ownership

    Nathan Schneider
    Some of the country’s biggest financial institutions would still need public bailouts if they failed. But it’s not their size that’s the problem, it’s how they’re run

March 2016

  • Mitt Romney<br>FILE - In this Jan. 16, 2015, file photo, Mitt Romney, the former Republican presidential nominee, speaks during the Republican National Committee's winter meeting aboard the USS Midway Museum in San Diego. Romney charged into the increasingly divisive 2016 GOP White House sweepstakes Thursday, March 3, 2016, with a harsh takedown of front-runner Donald Trump. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)

    The 2016 campaign, minute-by-minute
    Trump: 'I could have told Mitt Romney to drop to his knees' – as it happened

  • Bernie Sanders addresses a capacity crowd at Colorado State University's Molby Arena

    double quotation markGame over for Sanders? It needn't be

    Nathan Schneider

September 2010

  • Cif belief
    double quotation markThere is no abstention from politics

    Nathan Schneider
    Nathan Schneider: Can religion be apolitical? The apolitical heresy takes two forms: jihadi extremism and blissed-out spirituality. Both disregard other human beings

January 2010

  • Cif belief
    double quotation markTheology for atheists

    Nathan Schneider

    Nathan Schneider: Theology lets us talk about deep and irrational urges. This is seen by some atheists as weakness. But maybe it's a strength as well

October 2009

  • Cif belief
    double quotation markCould God die again?

    Nathan Schneider

    Nathan Schneider: Death of God theology was a 1960s phenomenon that casts light on the narrowness of the current debate

August 2009

  • Cif belief
    double quotation markThe proof industry

    Nathan Schneider
    Nathan Schneider: When modern-day debaters on belief use ancient proofs in their arguments, it's often to make a point they weren't meant to serve

June 2009

  • Cif belief
    double quotation markHave faith in atheists

    Nathan Schneider

    Nathan Schneider: Those who discriminate againsts non-believers should know that atheists are healthy, intelligent and well adjusted

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