As mentioned earlier, starting tomorrow morning we're kicking off what should be a very interesting stretch of guest voices in this space, while I disappear to finish a book (and before that, ahem, an article -- check the April issue). For the coming week, I'm delighted to introduce good friends whom I always enjoy hearing from; I think you will too. This first week belongs to:
Phil Baker, a product designer and technology writer from San Diego. He has helped conceive some of the products you use and have around the house; his insights on tech and business are, for me, always provocative. Many of the most interesting things I learned about Chinese manufacturing systems I learned because of him. His regular blog is here.
Jorge Guajardo, with guest appearances by his wife Paola. They are Mexico's first family in China, where he currently serves as the Mexican ambassador. Both went to college in the US -- he to Georgetown, she to Yale -- and they have been involved in politics and culture in Mexico, the US, and China. Jorge and I first met because of a shared interest in small-plane flying. We formed a North American solidarity bloc in Beijing during the great Swine Flu panic there, when anyone from our part of the world (but especially Mexico) was viewed with public-health department suspicion.
John Tierney is a political scientist and former college professor who now is a beloved teacher in a private high school in Boston, an accomplished amateur actor, and a long time close friend. For several years he has carried out high-end book and movie criticism, in his own blog, plus political views I expect he will share.
Lane Wallace is known to Atlantic readers for her many articles and Dispatches here. I first met her a decade ago in the amateur-piloting world, where she was already famous for her columns in Flying. She has written with great insight about bravery and courage of many sorts; her regular site, on that topic and others, is here.
Welcome to them all. It is a pleasure to turn the stage over to them. And, if you press the now misleadingly named "Email Fallows" button above, your messages should instead go to each week's authors, for them to handle as they see fit.
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Phil Baker, a product designer and technology writer from San Diego. He has helped conceive some of the products you use and have around the house; his insights on tech and business are, for me, always provocative. Many of the most interesting things I learned about Chinese manufacturing systems I learned because of him. His regular blog is here.
Jorge Guajardo, with guest appearances by his wife Paola. They are Mexico's first family in China, where he currently serves as the Mexican ambassador. Both went to college in the US -- he to Georgetown, she to Yale -- and they have been involved in politics and culture in Mexico, the US, and China. Jorge and I first met because of a shared interest in small-plane flying. We formed a North American solidarity bloc in Beijing during the great Swine Flu panic there, when anyone from our part of the world (but especially Mexico) was viewed with public-health department suspicion.
John Tierney is a political scientist and former college professor who now is a beloved teacher in a private high school in Boston, an accomplished amateur actor, and a long time close friend. For several years he has carried out high-end book and movie criticism, in his own blog, plus political views I expect he will share.
Lane Wallace is known to Atlantic readers for her many articles and Dispatches here. I first met her a decade ago in the amateur-piloting world, where she was already famous for her columns in Flying. She has written with great insight about bravery and courage of many sorts; her regular site, on that topic and others, is here.
Welcome to them all. It is a pleasure to turn the stage over to them. And, if you press the now misleadingly named "Email Fallows" button above, your messages should instead go to each week's authors, for them to handle as they see fit.
