Stephen L. Carter

That’s funny. There were no computer-led disasters this past weekend. Shortly before midnight on Saturday, April 6, the clock that keeps official time for the Global Positioning System ran out of space to count the weeks, and rolled back to Week One. The hazards of this “rollover” were hyped in…

When Facebook went down for hours this week, the internet was all atwitter (sorry). Most of what I came across was fairly snarky, but a lot of the posts were pretty clever. I saw a variation of this retweeted many times: “News flash! Facebook down! People talk to each other, kids play with toys!” …

Pardon me while I offer a few words in Facebook’s defense. I stand by my previous column, in which I noted that the company had once more goofed on privacy with a research app that vacuumed up information from users’ mobile phones. On issues concerning user data, Facebook seems unable to improve…

The increasingly bizarre dispute between President Donald Trump and his former campaign aide and White House staffer Steve Bannon continues to boggle the mind. Yet for me as a contracts professor, one corner of the contretemps raises a simple and clear question. I refer to the letter from Trump’s…