Author: Christopher Schroeder

  • Quite Careless Indeed

    Quite Careless Indeed

    Sarah Wynn-Williams’s (2025) book Careless People is offered as a memoir of her six years at Meta (Facebook), but it focuses as much on the people whose decisions created this company, such as Mark Zuckerberg, Sheryl Sandberg, and Joel Kaplan, who was reportedly hired to appease the Trump administration. Wynn-Williams, a former New Zealand diplomat,…

  • No Kings

    No Kings

  • Criticizing the Critics

    Criticizing the Critics

    I had concerns about the Chicago Sun-Times even before its most recent AI-related fiasco. The newspaper seems to have diminished in quality and quantity since I started subscribing. More recently, it seems to be moving away from the opinion business. This shift seems more than refraining from candidate endorsements as is reportedly required of nonprofits.…