January 28, 2019
RIP: Russell Baker (no audio)
November 4, 2015
Moneyball For City Hall
Dan Koh, the new chief of staff to Boston’s mayor, wants city government to work like Brad Pitt’s team in Moneyball. The Oakland A’s broke through when they...| More
September 30, 2014
Hacking Climate Change
Can we hack our way toward solutions for climate change? While governments dither, Congress negates and the world warms, how about deploying private finance, atmospheric...| More
September 25, 2014
America’s War of Ideas
In the run up to another war in the Middle East, after stalemate in Afghanistan and Iraq, what is it in the American DNA that...| More
August 31, 2014
Hacking Democracy
Do we dare look under the hood of American democracy? Or do we have the suspicion that Supreme Court decisions and political battles conceal a...| More
August 18, 2014
WWI: The Shock of the New
Out of the wreckage of World War 1 come the incandescent modernists -- none burning brighter than James Joyce and his Ulysses. And don't forget...| More
July 10, 2014
One Nation Under Surveillance
It’s the artists — from Orwell of Nineteen Eighty-Four, to Philip Dick and Margaret Atwood, to Trevor Paglen and Banksy — who raise the big...| More
June 13, 2014
China Rising
China is in its own gilded age, says The New Yorker writer Evan Osnos, into a second generation of ultra-modern tech, a still-developing country bristling...| More
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