On feudal capitalism
Willy Shih fears that the U.S. is headed towards feudal capitalism. He doesn’t […]
Bada boom for companies
In Security versus the Mob, I examine how organized criminals find easy pickings […]
Diary of a prisoner
A white-collar worker who spent time in jail wrote about his experience on […]
Fred, a parable crying out to be a musical
The trouble with Brad Whittington’s Fred trilogy is that musicals differ from novels. […]
Carr vs. Masnick on pay to play
A two-part debate on whether newspapers can avoid the fate of horseshoe makers […]
Will we miss newspapers or welcome lawyers?
Clay Shirky weighed in with some good comments on why the demise of […]
God doesn’t love your 401(k)
That was the cover line on this excerpt from God’s Economy, a new […]
Radio lab
In the last two days, two friends mentioned RadioLab to me as something […]
The journalist as research analyst
Here’s a kind of oddity — David Westphal of the Annenberg Journalism School […]
Going without leaving
This is the year of the staycation. Undaunted, Marc Horowitz and Pete Baldes […]