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The Wheel of Karma, Microsoft Division
Thirteen years ago, I put in a six-month stint as a member of a Microsoft design team. (For history buffs: we were working on features that became part of Word XP.) I agreed with Microsoft that I...
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David Rubenstein on the 'Panda Sex' Principle of Politics
This morning, on the final day of the Washington Ideas Forum, I got to interview David Rubenstein on topics ranging from the Chinese succession to his own decision to give away his fortune rather than...
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How to Say Xi JINping? Think Bobby JINdal
[Please see UPDATE below.] If you're anything like me, you were certainly glued to CCTV late last night -- mid-day Thursday Beijing time -- to see the exciting unveiling of the seven members of the new...
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The Neanderthal Defense Committee Swings Into Action
The Colbert show tonight was all about traces of the Neanderthal lineage among us. In a derisory tone. And we have this: Background: It seems that I have an exceptionally high proportion of Neanderthal...
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What the Bartender Saw
Getting us back to politics-and-sociology, and as a segue to more from and about the Atlas Shrugged Guy and his California quasi-sympathizer, here is a note from a reader in the northeast. Context is...
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Let's Get Back to the Atlas Shrugged Guy
I will work through this as systematically as I can. You can see many past Atlas Shrugged Guy entries here. For some reason, our "categories" function isn't working now, so some are missing, like this...
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Is There Any 'Reasoned' Defense of the Atlas Shrugged Guy?
If you're late joining us -- hey, maybe it's best to keep moving right along! Over the past two weeks readers have weighed in, pro and (mostly) con, about a small businessman somewhere in the Middle...
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Barack Obama in Rangoon
In time you get used to anything. I still do an occasional double-take at reminders that Vietnam is a de-facto military partner of the United States, given the 50,000-plus Americans who died in warfare...
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Step One Toward a Fairer America: Raise the Minimum Wage
This item begins with two policy announcements, then switches back to "what the bartender saw."Policy announcement #1: Thanks to the scores of people who continue to send in views every day about the...
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Happy Thanksgiving, Humphrey Bogart Edition
Thanksgiving and the Fourth of July are America's best holidays. Anyone inside the U.S. naturally associates the Fourth of July with eating hotdogs and watching fireworks, and associates Thanksgiving...
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Black Friday Special! Festival of Minimum-Wage Ideas
When you feel like taking a break from shopping -- or if you're working in some retail establishment yourself -- here's something to consider on the income-inequality issue.Just before Thanksgiving,...
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Back to Foxconn: Cameras, Clinics, Hoops
In a few days, the new issue of the magazine will be out (subscribe!), including my article on some economic and technical trends that are brightening prospects for new manufacturing jobs in .......
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Today's Heartbreak-of-Hacked-Email Saga
I regret to say that every day I get a message or two like the one below. "Regret" because of the churn and hassle the people who write are going through; regret because I generally intend to do...
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Post-Thanksgiving Links: Sexy Kim, Bloviating Solons, Twilight of McCain
I have been out of CONUS and Internet range for a while, so I'm behind the news. I will ease my way back with a few reading-tip links.1) Thanks to everyone who sent me links about Kim Jong-un's new...
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Mr. China Thinks of Becoming Mr. America
Our new issue is out. (Say it with me: give the best gift of all, a combined print-and-online subscription!). Although I've worked for the magazine for a very long time, I make a point of not looking...
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The Next Global Hotspot to Worry About
If you're worn out worrying about Syria, Gaza, Iran, you name it, I give you: the announcement today by police on China's large southern island of Hainan that, starting on January 1, they will assert a...
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A Remarkable Article by Ron Fournier
Our Atlantic-world colleague Ron Fournier, of National Journal, has written a remarkable long article that I promise you will not regret taking the time to read. It is not what most readers would have...
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More on That Ominous Chinese Maritime Announcement
Last night I mentioned the weirdly aggressive-sounding declaration from officials in Hainan, China's southernmost island, that starting January 1 they would assert the right to stop and board vessels...
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The CEO of DreamWorks on the Making of 'Lincoln'
One month before the election, The Atlantic and our partners at UCSD put on the second 'Atlantic Meets the Pacific' conference in La Jolla. Video of many of the sessions has now gone up on the UCSD...
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In Boston: Wednesday at MIT, Thursday at Porter Square Books
My wife and I look forward to these next few days in Boston -- the place where she and I met, the place where I spent ages 1 to 2, the place where my sister now lives. On Wednesday afternoon, Dec. 5,...
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