# John O’Brien

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28 June 1969: Stonewall Rebellion

On this day, 28 June 1969, the Stonewall rebellion began in the early hours. The New York Police Department, as part of its policy of closing gay bars, raided the Stonewall Inn, which had a substantial poor and working class LGBT+ clientele. However, for the first time in the city, rather than subm…

The EU Is Regulating Europe Out of the Tech Race I MCC Brussels Deep Dive

Brussels wants Europe to achieve “digital sovereignty”, reducing its dependence on American and Chinese technology. But what if the entire project is based on a dangerous misunderstanding of how technological power actually works? In this MCC Brussels Deep Dive, John O’Brien speaks to Dr Norman Lew…

A Glimpse Into The First 90 Days as a New CEO

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How an Irish building contractor conned US homeowners out of €1.3 million

This episode was originally published in April 2026. John O’Brien’s scam was simple. Arriving in the US on a tourist visa in 2021, he set himself up as a building contractor in Massachusetts and Rhode Island. By the time the authorities caught up with the 28 year-old, he had conned more than 100 vi…

Brussels Therapy and the Politics of Mental Health I MCC Brussels Deep Dive

In this MCC Brussels Deep Dive, John O’Brien speaks to Dr Ashley Frawley, Visiting Research Fellow at MCC Brussels and author of the new report Manufacturing Fragility: How Brussels’s Therapeutic State Makes Citizens Weaker. The EU has committed more than a billion euros to mental health programmes…

The West Cannot Survive Without Its Past I MCC Brussels Deep Dive

In this MCC Brussels Deep Dive, John O’Brien is joined by Harvard historian James Hankins to discuss The Golden Thread: A History of the Western Tradition, Volume.Hankins argues that Western civilisation is not simply a sequence of empires, revolutions and crimes. It is held together by a fragile i…

Anthropy - A Living Laboratory for Collective Intelligence (H38)

Anthropy - A Living Laboratory for Collective Intelligence What happens when more than 2,000 leaders from business, government, education, academia, the arts, charities and civil society leave their titles - and their sector silos - at the door? Lucy Knill is CEO of Anthropy, the UK’s largest gat…

SOBER

Sober is a documentary about alcohol, sobriety, and what happens to your sense of community when you stop drinking. Beginning with one simple thought - the sudden feeling that it might be nice to have a pint with new colleagues - Dave Hackett explores what alcohol has come to represent in Irish li…

Building the Table: How Young Professionals Changed EDUCAUSE

As John O’Brien prepares to retire, he joins Sarah Buszka and Alycia Baggett Chastang to reflect on eleven years of the Young Professionals Advisory Committee (YPAC) and its role in expanding leadership pathways and building a community for emerging higher education technology professionals. Hoste…