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…
Cheat Sheet for Tonight and Tomorrow’s Democrat Presidential…
Lambert Strether of Corrente As so often (and especially after the writers got their Union), the Onion sums it up: “‘I Just Want A Substantive, Issues-Oriented Democratic Debate,’ Lie Thousands Of Americans Hungry For Unhinged…
Do’s and Don’ts
From the Lefsetz Letter Don’t feel bad that you don’t know what’s going on, today no one knows what is going on. Do ignore the trolls, what they’re looking for is a reaction, and…
Whether It’s the New NAFTA or the Old…
By Leo W. Gerard, the international president of the United Steelworkers Union (USW). Produced by the Independent Media Institute Mick Mulvaney, a millionaire who is President Trump’s acting chief of staff and director of the…
Book Review: Chris Arnade’s “Dignity”
“When the Pharisees saw this, they asked his disciples, ‘Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?'” —Matt 9:11 By Lambert Strether of Corrente Those who have followed Chris Arnade on Twitter or…
The Poor Who Are Not With Us
America has a bad case of poverty denialism. And no wonder. Being poor is stigmatized. In neo-Calvanist America, if you aren’t doing well, it must be the result of bad choices (like choosing the wrong…
FANGMAN Stocks Crushed by Potential “Unprecedented, Wide-Ranging Probe”…
Yves here. Who’d have thunk it? Curbing rentier capitalism would be bad for rentiers. It’s only recently that more and more economic research and press interest about the cost of monopolies has taken the sheen…
Satisfying the great expectations of the middle class
Today, the politics of wealth is contentious in both democracies and non-democracies. It has helped to create both 'millennial socialism' and political populism (Alstadsæter et al. 2017, Ansell and Adler 2019, The Economist 2019). But…
Hubert Horan: Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part Twenty:…
By Hubert Horan, who has 40 years of experience in the management and regulation of transportation companies (primarily airlines). Horan has no financial links with any urban car service industry competitors, investors or regulators, or…