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Virginia Eubanks

  • Technology and Social Justice Writer, Freelance
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Writing about violence and care. Bylines @guardian, @NYTmag, &etc.; On IG (www.instagram.com/virginiaeeubanks/) and virginiaeeubanks.bsky.social now.
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The Castle: Adventures in a World of Unraveling Men

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By Rana Dasgupta, Meaghan Beatley, Virginia Eubanks
| Publishers Weekly Verified
Jon Ronson. Riverhead, $32 (336p) ISBN 978-1-59463-420-8 Journalist Ronson (So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed) delivers a by turns amusing and harrowing report on the desultory state of contemporary men. In 2023, Ronson’s son was invited to a party at a castle in rural Connecticut, replete with “draw-bridge, gargoyles, and many... too many...
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Vonnegut’s War: The Making of Slaughterhouse-Five

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By Rana Dasgupta, Meaghan Beatley, Virginia Eubanks
| Publishers Weekly Verified
Susan Farrell. Bloomsbury Academic, $27 (280p) ISBN 978-1-350-58000-8 Farrell (Imagining Home), a literature professor at the College of Charleston, offers an arresting account of the creation and impact of Kurt Vonnegut’s 1969 novel Slaughterhouse-Five. Born in Indianapolis in 1922, Vonnegut enlisted in the army during WWII and was captured by German soldiers during the Battle of the Bulge and imprisoned in a slaughterhouse in Dresden, where he survived Allied firebombing of the city.
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AI has a democracy problem - here’s why

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By Virginia Eubanks
| Nature Verified
Rewiring Democracy: How AI Will Transform Our Politics, Government, and Citizenship Bruce Schneier and Nathan E. Sanders MIT Press (2025) The tsunami of writing on artificial intelligence tends towards either bald hype or panicked dystopianism. Proponents say that AI will revolutionize health care, drive business growth and become our new best friend. But for its critics, AI could cause massive unemployment, perpetuate fake news and pose an extinction risk to humankind.
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