Articles 2022
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Synthetic Meat Will Change the Ethics of Eating
The Wall Street Journal, December 23, 2022
Consumers will soon be able to dine on chicken and other animal proteins grown in a factory, upending the way we think about nature and technology
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What Shopping Did for American Equality
The Wall Street Journal, December 08, 2022
From five-and-dimes to suburban malls, the experience of browsing and buying has helped to define public life
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‘Status and Culture’ Review: Making the Cut
The Wall Street Journal, October 07, 2022
Review of Status and Culture: How Our Desire for Social Rank Creates Taste, Identity, Art, Fashion, and Constant Change by W. David Marx
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Marc Andreessen’s Housing NIMBYism Is Losing Ground
Bloomberg Opinion, August 09, 2022
The investor and his neighbors want to block multiunit construction in America’s most expensive town. But California’s reforms are gradually overriding such local opposition.
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Can the US Housing Crisis Be Fixed By Abolishing Zoning?
Bloomberg Opinion, July 31, 2022
A conversation with author M. Nolan Gray on the social and economic costs of urban zoning and what American cities can learn from Houston.
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Sneaky Shrinkflation Is Driving People Crazy
Bloomberg Opinion, July 26, 2022
Packaging less stuff for the same price doesn’t fool consumers or economists. But diminishing quality imposes equally maddening extra costs that are almost impossible to measure.
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Stakeholder Capitalism Isn’t Working as Planned
Bloomberg Opinion, June 22, 2022
It’s a prescription for culture wars, political backlash, managerial paralysis and human-resources nightmares. And it’s anything but nice.
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Why Goofy Princeton Reunion Rituals Mean So Much to Me
Bloomberg Opinion, May 22, 2022
Silly clothes and eccentric traditions link the past to the present and future and build unity and continuity in an era of polarization and change.
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RIP, Ron Galella. Everyone’s a Paparazzo Now.
Bloomberg Opinion, May 07, 2022
Social media sapped the power of professional celebrity photographers, making it easier for stars to control their public images.
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Pocket Globes: The World in Your Hand
Online Library of Liberty Reading Room, April 28, 2022
They might have been of "frivolous utility" for navigation, but these trinkets offered ingenuity you could carry around, making them desirable accessories for an age of exploration and discovery.