David Meyer

As the climate crisis becomes ever more immediate, New York City police are declining to enforce a rule meant to help prevent more air pollution.

An app that alerts you to potentially suicidal tweets from the people you follow on Twitter raises ethical and even legal questions. 

Today, the ghosts of disco’s past and present come out to play. Writer David Meyer explains how the Bee Gees evolved from pop balladeers in the ‘60s... to dance-floor champions in the ‘70s. Plus: we open the phones to ask: “How Deep Is Your Love” for the Bee Gees?

David Meyer, professor appointee of cinema studies at The New School and film editor for The Brooklyn Rail, discusses whether movies like the biopic Milk can, or should, help push forward political agendas.