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A Giant Crypto Grift: Xbox Chief on His New Blockchain Thriller and Why Web3 Still Matters
In the midst of today’s AI hysteria, have we forgotten about blockchain technology and the seductive Web3 promise of decentralization? Robbie Bach, l…
1 year ago
An American Epidemic of Speculation: Bubble Blowing in Silicon Valley and Washington DC
Bubble or not? But the debate that’s been raging over the current AI exuberance might be missing the bigger point. Yes, of course, it’s a trillion-do…
1 year ago
Should a College be a Museum or a Startup? Why Universities Need to Teach Failure
What’s the point of going to college? There used to be an obvious answer to this: to acquire the knowledge to get a better job. But in our AI age, wh…
1 year ago
American Advocates of Foreign Devils: How Rudy Giuliani and Hunter Biden Sold Access to US Foreign Policy
What unites Rudy Giuliani and Hunter Biden? According to the New York Times reporter Kenneth Vogel, they are both on the payroll of corrupt foreign i…
1 year ago
Sometimes We Need a Calamity: How to Save the American Experiment
How to Save the American experiment? That’s the question the Yale historian John Fabian Witt asks this week in both a New York Times feature and his …
1 year ago
The Frankenstein Version of Neo-Liberalism: When American Business Overtook Government
For financial journalist Elizabeth MacBride, the New American economy is like the old one - only worse. Describing it as the “Frankenstein version of…
1 year ago
America as a Contradiction Trapped Inside an even Bigger Contradiction: Princeton Historian's Explanation for Everything, Everywhere All at Once
Churchill described Communist Russia as a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. For Pulitzer Prize winning Princeton historian, Paul Starr, A…
1 year ago
Jeffrey Archer: How Margaret Thatcher would have disciplined a Naughty Donald Trump
At 85, the venerable Jeffrey Archer has lived through enough crises to stay calm and carry on whatever the stormy political weather. The best-sellin…
1 year ago
Sam Altman's Rigged Imperial Gambit: Too Important to Fail & Too Well-Financed to Go Public
History rarely repeats itself, especially speculative bubbles. As it becomes increasingly obvious that today’s AI bubble will dramatically burst, the…
1 year ago
America's Most Wounded Generation: Returning Home after World War II
Tom Brokaw famously described America’s World War II servicemen as the “Greatest Generation”. But according to the historian David Nasaw, the Americ…
1 year ago