Hot Tuna and a Hippopotamus
It’s Ash Wednesday. Over breakfast, my children looked blankly at me as I […]
Five Books that Changed our World
It puzzles me that Harvard offers no courses on non-fiction narrative. I like […]
Blind spot on the Cameroon
Most contemporary media criticism comes down to some variant on ‘your story doesn’t […]
My Antonia
Curious to see what’s happened to story-telling over the course of the last […]
Why we work
Often I think our modern math and neuroscience just tell us what we […]
Portrait of the artist at 47
A professor in class today said, “the young look ahead, the old look […]
Dosteovsky’s view of behavioral economics
Sitting in my political economy class yesterday I watched Roberto Unger and Ricardo […]
Peter Lipton, In Memoriam
(Reposted from November 2007. I deleted this accidentally while purging spam posts). I […]
Life in the second global economy
Accumulated snow caused a Cantabrigian to get her mini-van stuck in the middle […]
Negotiating and Shopping
I’ve spent almost every waking hour for the last 17 days being part […]