Articles 2025
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Obama Fails Art History and Economics
Bloomberg View, January 31, 2014
President Obama had a perfectly fine message for young people when he spoke at a General Electric plant in Wisconsin yesterday: Learning a skilled trade can be just as lucrative and worthy of respect as getting a college diploma. Unfortunately, that’s not what he said. Instead, he took a cheap shot at the favorite punching bag of people who deride higher education in general and the liberal arts in particular. He attacked art history.
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Is There a Right Way to Have Cancer?
Bloomberg View, January 13, 2014
Cancer is one of those subjects like diet or child-rearing where everyone seems to have a strong opinion about the right way to do things.
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Two Cheers for "First World Problems"
Bloomberg View, January 02, 2014
When United Parcel Service and FedEx missed last-minute Christmas deliveries, gift givers who’d relied on rush service were upset. But instead of public sympathy, their outrage and disappointment elicited ridicule and lectures.Commenters called the procrastinating shoppers foolish and self-indulgent. The incident, many declared, was a “first world problem.”
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How a "Car Gal" Took the Wheel at GM
Bloomberg View, December 10, 2013
With its appointment of Mary Barra to succeed Daniel Akerson as chief executive officer, General Motors Co. brings to a half dozen the number of major U.S. corporations headed by women. Barra, who started at the company in 1980 while a student at the General Motors Institute (now Kettering University), represents both continuity and change. Thirty years ago, few would have imagined that a woman would so quickly rise to head such a historically macho company, but several important factors worked in Barra’s favor.
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Who Needs a Raise When You Have TV?
(Quite possibly the most ridiculous but traffic-inducing headline ever written)
Bloomberg View, December 02, 2013
Are you better off now than you were 10 years ago? For middle-class Americans, a common answer to this version of Ronald Reagan’s old question is no. Nor are they optimistic about the future. The recession may be over officially, but a lot of smart people are convinced that broad-based improvements in the standard of living are largely a thing of the past. Before you embrace the idea that today is worse than yesterday and tomorrow won’t be much better, however, consider a common experience.
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The Glamour of Getting Away
the book (Neiman Marcus), December 2013
No matter how unpleasant the real journeys, travel still has a way of seducing us. -
Democrats Should End Quest for Kennedy's Camelot
Bloomberg View, November 19, 2013
His Camelot was pure glamour: a frozen moment, its flaws and conflicts obscured.
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The Heart and Soul of Glamour
Forget the Kardashians: Glamour is more persistent, pervasive, and powerful than we realize.
The Daily Beast, November 09, 2013
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When IHOP Was Glamorous
Fifty years ago, all anyone wanted was to be “international.” (Excerpt from THE POWER OF GLAMOUR)
Slate, November 06, 2013
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Making Gadgets Wireless Only Conceals Our Dependence on Them
The glamour of wirelessness (excerpt from THE POWER OF GLAMOUR)
Wired, November 05, 2013