About Gladden J. Pappin

Gladden J. Pappin is a fellow of the Potenziani Program in Constitutional Studies and the Center for Ethics and Culture at the University of Notre Dame.

The Tracking Revolution

By |2015-01-02T10:52:08-06:00December 29th, 2014|Categories: Culture, Featured, Liberty, Technology|Tags: |

It is hard not to think of ourselves as the users of technology, especially since technology forms a core part of the image of our freedom. Liberty and freedom are things that we have. Depending what definition we use, liberty describes a natural faculty to do what we want, denotes the absence of external impediments, [...]

Liberty, Technology, and the Advent of Social Networking

By |2016-04-18T14:44:07-05:00October 20th, 2011|Categories: Culture, Technology|Tags: |

In the world of constant communication, few of us would say that we enjoy a free relationship to technology. But according to the language of political liberty, we do. Liberty frees us to use technology and accept its benefits, or to avoid it and suffer the consequences. Yet liberty and technology are more deeply implicated [...]

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