Somewhere in Beijing there must be an incinerator for burning reports from outsiders telling China’s leaders what to do. In February the World Bank, in cooperation with an arm of the Chinese government, issued a report called China 2030 that included [ … ]
One day in November, 1919, a man named J. Frank Norfleet walked into the lobby of the St. George Hotel in Dallas. A rancher from the Texas Panhandle, Norfleet came to the city to sell some of his land and buy a bigger spread from a neighbor. At the St. George, Norfleet began chatting with a man name [ … ]
A memoir of the “Mad Men” era brings fresh perspective on all that sex and drinking
Advertising has one aim: to pitch a product as something desirable. There are different ways to move the merchandise—this car or that cereal or this beer will make you feel younger, slimmer, sexier. This may be the [ … ]
How he made money off knowing what consumers want before they knew they did
James D. Scurlock’s King Larry is a fun, trashy analog to Walter Isaacson’s Steve Jobs. Like Jobs, Scurlock’s subject, Larry Hillblom, the founder of the express-delivery pioneer DHL, was a postwar California boy who bootst [ … ]
Joseph S. Nye, Jr., a former US Assistant Secretary of Defense, is a professor at Harvard and the author most recently of The Future of Power.
Would the world be more peaceful if women were in charge? A challenging new book by the Harvard University psychologist Steven Pinker says that the answer [ … ]
After decades of getting short shrift, compact cars are now poised to outsell their larger rivals in America. What’s driving this change? According to industry analysts, it’s mostly fear: of an inevitable escalation in fuel prices, or of being saddled with u [ … ]
Maj. Gen. Pecos Kutesa, in his book; Uganda’s Revolution 1979 -1986: How I saw it tells the story of how Kampala fell to then-National Resistance Army rebels commanded by Yoweri Museveni on January 26, 1986. Below is his chapter entitled: The Fall of Kampala, pp237-249. It has been slightly edited d [ … ]
The U.S. unemployment rate sits obstinately above 9 percent. The housing market is still underwater. Consumer confidence stinks, the stock market is schizophrenic, and the big banks have been humbled. To cure this listlessness, the following treatments have been applied: bailouts, stimulus packages, [ … ]
Eco-art gets its prize
On 17th April 2012, in Doha, Qatar, Ugandan Bruno Ruganzu stepped on the podium to claim the TED Prize for City 2.0 at the TEDx Summit. Ruganzu scooped US$10,000 prize, beating 700 competitors, includ...
