Professor Jane Kamensky

We have quite a few commercial jobs that we're working on.

We have an electronic sign out in front of our building, and that's what it's advertising, letting commercial owners know.

That's On the Media's specialty.

Which is where a streaming aggregator like Roku comes in.

Giegengack says his company has studied how TV watching has changed.

Suddenly I want to watch Netflix and I have a Roku device.

Well, Fox is taking a bite out of that subscription and advertising revenue and all the other streamers and apps that you subscribe through your Roku app as well.

People who are like, you know, I felt like I did everything right in my life.

I went to, I don't know, Stanford and MIT.

I was top of my class.

I took the right job.

I did everything right.

But I don't know if my job even has value anymore.

Britain's American colonies had developed as many different systems of governance as there were colonies.

So we need to think about these almost as different countries.

The thing that they shared is they had an extraordinary degree of local control and institutions that were accountable to their local populations.

So there was a sense that when they reached into your pocket for taxation, they also looked you in the eye.

The churches are huge institutions in Boston and throughout New England.

And if you look at any engraving of the 18th century Boston waterfront, you see steeples rising almost like a forest.

It's a fractious and disputatious place in ways that descend from Puritanism.