Articles 2019
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'The Great British Bake Off' Can Win Any Culture War
Bloomberg Opinion, December 21, 2019
A hit show proves that native and global cultures co-exist beautifully.
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Hollywood Shows How Antitrust Laws Can Flop
Bloomberg Opinion, December 05, 2019
The rules that have governed most of the movie industry for 70 years offer a lesson in the costs of trust-busting.
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You Can’t Fight California Fires With Political Hot Air
Bloomberg Opinion, November 13, 2019
Practical measures can limit the damage. Stoking division inflames it.
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The iPhone of 1939 Helped Liberate Europe. And Women.
Bloomberg Opinion, October 25, 2019
A troubled chemist invented nylon, the fiber that shaped the world. Then we took it for granted.
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Homelessness Isn’t Just a Humanitarian Problem
Bloomberg Opinion, October 03, 2019
California activists are undermining their cause by ignoring and stigmatizing legitimate concerns about social disorder.
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Homelessness Isn’t Just a Humanitarian Problem
Bloomberg Opinion, October 03, 2019
California activists are undermining their cause by ignoring and stigmatizing legitimate concerns about social disorder.
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Italy’s Hug Makes China Feel Warm Inside
Bloomberg Opinion, March 25, 2019
The first G-7 country to join Belt and Road embraces Beijing’s benign view of its place in the world.
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Not Even the Pope Can Maintain a Monopoly
Reason, April 2019
Religiously traumatic and militarily ominous, the fall of Constantinople in 1453 also created a crisis for the European textile industry. The problem, in a word, was alum.