Three asset managers now collectively own a big chunk of nearly every corporation. As a result, capitalism no longer works as advertised. | Continue reading
One of the WNBA’s premier players has been detained in Russia for weeks, yet the reaction has been curiously muted. | Continue reading
Street photographer Brandon Stanton has pivoted his blog into a one-man philanthropy that raises millions of dollars for random people. | Continue reading
Why are so many liberals mad at David Leonhardt? | Continue reading
It’s rare to become addicted to esoteric hallucinogens. But it’s not impossible. | Continue reading
His Twitter clone, Truth Social, has a No. 1 iOS app, but it can’t yet handle his or anyone else’s “Truths.” | Continue reading
The social-media Goliath has fallen out of the top-ten largest companies in the world by market capitalization. | Continue reading
How Heather Morgan and Ilya Lichtenstein spent their time when they couldn’t spend their mountain of allegedly stolen bitcoin. | Continue reading
I support affirmative action, but stop denying it discriminates against Asians. | Continue reading
In 1871, under anonymous cover, the writer-politician Edward Bulwer-Lytton published the novella Vril: The Power of the Coming Race. Bulwer-Lytton is now most famous for coining the phrase “The pen is mightier than the sword” and the opening li [...] | Continue reading
“I think this is all stupid and absurd. But I’m not going to complain.” | Continue reading
Hundreds of billions of dollars disappeared overnight, and it may get worse. | Continue reading
On the eve of a new Supreme Court session, the firebrand justice discusses gay rights and media echo chambers, Seinfeld and the Devil, and how much he cares about his intellectual legacy (“I don’t”). | Continue reading
Facebook lost nearly $200 billion in value because while his head was in the metaverse, his company was being eaten alive in the real world. | Continue reading
When the VC downplayed Uighur oppression on a podcast, he didn’t mention his deep business ties to China. | Continue reading
For two decades, Amy Chua and Jed Rubenfeld were Yale Law power brokers. A new generation wants to see them exiled. | Continue reading
The new COVID variant has all the makings of a massive wave. | Continue reading
Or what’s a four-letter word for “East Indian betel nut” and who cares? | Continue reading
How to (cautiously and skeptically) fall down the rabbit hole. | Continue reading
High-level diplomats are as prone to sociogenic illness as anyone else. | Continue reading
The author of Debt and The Dawn of Everything left behind countless admirers and an abiding belief that society could be changed for the better. | Continue reading
Scott Galloway thinks Mark Zuckerberg is exactly the wrong person to build an alternate reality. | Continue reading
With promising therapeutic drugs on the horizon and parents now able to get their kids vaccinated, the real U.S. endgame may at last be near. | Continue reading
There’s a picket line at Columbia. | Continue reading
The prototypical virtual pillory. | Continue reading
The former darling of the liberal media is now one of its loudest critics. He says he hasn’t changed. | Continue reading
In the not-too-distant future, endless robocalls may be eradicated, thanks to something called STIR/SHAKEN. | Continue reading
If you turn it into a DAO, that is. But what’s a DAO? It’s a little bit cryptocurrency, a little bit gamer clan, a little bit pyramid scheme. | Continue reading
Ten years later, the legacy of Zuccotti Park has never been clearer. | Continue reading
In Kansas with Stephanie Grisham, who does not believe she will be redeemed. | Continue reading
Are they onto something huge again — or just fighting the last war? | Continue reading
Scott Galloway on the rise of the storyteller CEO and the risk of vision becoming fiction. | Continue reading
Demystifying the process of getting your child into a good school, in eleven easy lessons. | Continue reading
Meet Doris Dev. | Continue reading
Awash in coders, crypto, and capital, the city is loving — and beginning to shape — its newest industry. | Continue reading
His ideology dominates Silicon Valley. It began to form when he was an angry young man. | Continue reading
SPACs have seen a massive two-year boom, resulting in a wave of companies going public. That might be coming to an end. | Continue reading
In his new book, 'Priceless: The Myth of Fair Value (and How to Take Advantage of It)',author William Poundstone dissects the marketing tricks built into menus—for example, how something as simple as typography can drive you toward or away from [...] | Continue reading
The polemicist’s latest screed fails to distinguish between liberals who annoy him on Twitter and the U.S. government. | Continue reading
Officials condemned the unauthorized mission as a reckless stunt. But the congressman says it was critical oversight of a crisis he tried to prevent. | Continue reading
The desperate economics behind the pursuit of an even higher education. | Continue reading
To raise real wages and lower Americans’ cost of living, we need to inject more demand into the economy, not less, economist J.W. Mason argues. | Continue reading
A large, groundbreaking study suggesting no clear benefit from school mask mandates has many experts questioning the policy. | Continue reading
It begins again: the messy bargain between Gawker owner and Gawker writer. | Continue reading
It begins again: the messy bargain between Gawker owner and Gawker writer. | Continue reading
It’s not even clear who is running Binance’s U.S. arm now. | Continue reading
The vaccines work very well, but current public health communications may be understating the frequency of infections among the vaccinated. | Continue reading