Get the Think newsletter.SUBSCRIBEMarch 24, 2019, 3:57 PM GMTBy Ani BundelEven the best creators can have a hard time knowing when to stop. The sequel trap has tripped up many a beloved series, written and…
What If Tariffs Cost Trump The Farm Vote?
In 1977, Jimmy Carter made an improbable journey from Georgia peanut grower to Democratic president in part by playing on his humble roots and receiving support from America’s farmers. Yet this bedrock voting constituency abandoned…
What’s good for Wall Street is often bad…
A strong dollar is hurting American workers and main street manufacturers, as I explained last week in the New York Times. I discussed what can be done about it, which builds on a crucial plank…
Are Cryptocurrencies the First Crack in the Wall…
Yves here. It’s hard to convey how incoherent and contradictory Facebook’s claims about its new payments pipe dream, Libra, are. The only reason I can fathom for Facebook touting such a obviously barmy idea was…
Book Review: John Patrick Leary’s “Keywords: The New…
Late last year, I linked to a review of John Patrick Leary’s Keywords: The New Language of Capitalism (Haymarket Books), and put it on my list of “one more book to read.” And now I’ve…
AI, Drones, Empathy, Alienation, and the Gig Economy
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. The Verge has an important post on content moderation in the corporate hellhole that is Facebook which has implications both for the future of work (or, as we call it,…
Coming out: AIDS, institutions, and cultural change
Over the last few decades, there has been a large change in public opinion towards same-sex relationships in many countries. As shown in Figure 1, when asked whether it is “wrong for same-sex adults to…
Should the government step in?, by Scott Sumner
Here’s a recent New York Times story: 11,000 Will Die Waiting For Transplants This Year The actual figure may be closer to 43,000. These deaths are caused by a government law that prevents monetary compensation…
Grenfell Tower Fire: A (Non-)Progress Report
By Lambert Strether of Corrente Today, June 14, is the second anniversary of the GrenFell Tower fire in London, a public housing block where 72 people died in a conflagration where the proximate cause was…