Justin Peters

  • How Aaron Swartz Caught The FBI’s Attention

    How Aaron Swartz Caught The FBI’s Attention

    In May 2006, Aaron Swartz wrote a blog post titled “The Book That Changed My Life”. The book in question, Understanding Power, is a series of transcribed discussions with the MIT linguist Noam Chomsky in which Chomsky analyses and explains the ways in which political power is wielded, acquired and guarded. “Reading the book, I…