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George Packer's Emergency: When Facts Fail, Turn to Fiction
George Packer is one of the most celebrated non-fiction writers on contemporary America. So why, in his new book The Emergency, has he turned to fi…
10 months ago
How 9/11 Broke the News, Both Then and Now: CNN's Finest Hour Was Also Its Last
The CNN anchor Carol Lin was on air on September 11, 2001 when the first plane hit the tower. So, in that now seemingly distant broadcast media age, …
10 months ago
An Anglo-American Way of Troublemaking: The Fierce, Unruly Life of Jessica Mitford
Jessica was the good Mitford sister. The English aristocrat who fought against fascism in the Spanish Civil War, then came to America and dedicated h…
10 months, 1 week ago
How Capitalism Can Save Capitalism: The Case for Stakeholder Capitalism
The American economy is a numbers game and those numbers are becoming more and more unfair. “30 years ago, if you were born in the bottom 25th percen…
10 months, 1 week ago
2% of Americans are Homeless: America's Most Shameful Open Secret
Numbers often tell the story best. Yesterday, we discussed today’s 95/5 reality in which 5% of Americans control 95% of the wealth. Today, in our co…
10 months, 1 week ago
A Code RED For Humanity: Forget 80/20 - the 95/5 Rule of our AI Age
Forget Pareto’s 80/20 rule. What AI is doing is producing a new rule in which 5% of society captures 95% of the value of this revolution. That Was Th…
10 months, 1 week ago
Why "Progress" is Ruling Class Propaganda: The Dangerous Idea that Built Civilization and is Now Destroying it
Is the idea of “progress” the propaganda of the ruling class? Yes, according to Samuel Miller McDonald, author of Progress: How One Idea Built Civili…
10 months, 1 week ago
Two VCs, No Filter: The Naked Truth about Elon Musk and Sam Altman
They certainly are an odd couple. Silicon Valley veterans Dave McClure and Aman Verjee have been friends and business partners for 25 years — first a…
10 months, 1 week ago
From Mongolia to Silicon Valley: A Venture Capitalist's American Dream
If you think the American Dream is dead, then you probably don’t know the story of Lu Zhang. Born in Mongolia and educated in China, Zhang came to St…
10 months, 1 week ago
The Broken China Dream: How Reform Revived Totalitarianism
We all know about the broken American Dream. But according to the American-based China scholar Minxin Pei, China’s dream is equally broken. In his ne…
10 months, 2 weeks ago