Have you no shame?
A friend sent me Emily Nussbaum’s trenchant piece Say Everything from New York […]
Author: Michael
Writer on technology, business and culture. Family guy. Believer.
Japan after number one
Ezra Vogel, the Harvard sociologist, is legendary in Japan. His 1979 book Japan […]
For he’s a jolly good…
It’s a terrible pun. But I am jolly to be named a Templeton-Cambridge […]
Interesting interview with Francis Collins
National Geographic’s February issue has what is the best interview I’ve seen with […]
ID Theft, the new small talk
I had lunch this week with the CEO of a mid-sized Silicon Valley-based […]
Surfing the U.S. housing market
Robert Shiller is both a thoughtful macroeconomist and a clever entrepreneur. I interviewed […]
Beckernomics
As a college student, I was interested in writing and in business. Being […]
In the Court of Posner’s Opinion
While in Chicago in July 2006 I also went up to the top […]
The Realist World
In July 2006, I attended an excellent writer’s conference in Chicago, Writers and […]
Inflating Japan
After the Bank of Japan moved from a zero percent interest rate, I […]