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A Sane Resolution Between Uber and D.C.?
This past summer I mentioned the D.C. installment of the ongoing Uber-vs.-the-world battle. In the following months, as the Atlantic Wire reported, Uber (the on-demand, relatively expensive,...
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If You Are Feeling Jaded About Human Adventuresomeness
I encourage you to read this obituary, from the UK Telegraph, of Maj-Gen Tony Deane-Drummond, who died yesterday at age 95. (National Portrait Gallery photo, via the Telegraph.) Here is a minor sample...
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Foxconn and Apple Come (Back) to America
Boy, am I glad that the current issue of our magazine came out a week ago, rather than a week or two from now. Today we hear that:Apple is planning to open at least one Mac production line in America,...
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Today's Discouraging-News-Out-of-China Report
This morning I talked with Brian Lehrer of WNYC in New York, who had just returned from his first trip to China. As I told him, it's always thrilling for me when outsiders have an immersion in the...
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A Newly Preposterous Low for McConnell (and the Filibuster)
My admiration for the Senate's minority leader, the Hon. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, is limited. But his latest move took even me by surprise.In a tactic he thought would put the Obama Administration...
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Ask Dr. Popkin: Were You on Obama's 'Dream Team'?
Through the campaign season, we've often heard from political scientist Samuel Popkin (right), of UCSD, about the strategies, the successes, and the mistakes of the Obama and Romney campaigns. Two days...
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Why We Love the English-Language Chinese Press, Part 12,413
From China Daily, My Favorite Newspaper on Earth™, with several related manifestations of hyper-earnest Chinese "soft power" all at once:My favorite part of this story about China's new leader is the...
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A Simple Test: What's Your Visual IQ?
You can try this at home, using various iterations of the University of California seal and logo.1. Classic version, UC system official seal:Do you like it? Yes / No2. Now, to show variations in the UC...
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Albert O. Hirschman
I am embarrassed to say that I had not realized that Albert O. Hirschman was still among the living as of late 2012. His work has been so important a part of the world's intellectual and moral...
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Some People Like the New UC Logo!
Or at least one person, and he claims not to have been part of the paid design team. We'll get to him later on. Let's build the story step by step.What we're talking about. Check it out below. On the...
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'Cal: There's an App for That!'
There are other topics to catch up on, but by serendipity three similar-themed responses on the UCal Logo Wars arrived at practically the same moment.One by one, and even more powerfully in...
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One Author, Two Good Articles
The author is Robert Kuttner, of The American Prospect. The first item is an appreciation of Albert O. Hirschman, whose death at age 97 I mentioned briefly two days ago. Kuttner describes the...
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Rectification of Names, 鸿海 Division
This is interesting. If you looked at the inside pages of the Wall Street Journal today, you saw a valuable story from China about the challenges facing an Apple subcontractor called Hon Hai Precision...
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Today's Implausible Bill Clinton Picture
From an appearance at Dell World in (manifestly) Texas:More info here. Thanks to reader RJ.__For the record: My wife and I spent a total of nearly four years living in Austin, all of them happily, and...
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Alan Tonelson: 'The Insourcing Boom That Isn't'
The current issue of our magazine (a subscription makes a perfect gift!™) has a two-part cover-story package. One is Charles Fishman's "The Insourcing Boom," which concentrates on GE and argues that...
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American Exceptionalism: The Shootings Will Go On
Insane rampages are, sadly, not confined to the United States. One happened this very day in China, where a cruel madman attacked a group of children at school.Here's the difference:Twenty-two children...
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A Constructive Suggestion, and a Test, for the NRA
The University of California has backed off its benighted plan for a new "improved" logo. Normally I would say a lot about that, but it will keep for a day or two. Back to today's news:Over the years...
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'Gun Safety,' Not 'Gun Control'
A reader writes:Since I heard about the shooting in Newtown, I've been considering joining the NRA. I have no interest in owning a handgun and I'm against concealed weapons and am ambivalent about what...
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From the Archives: 'The Story of a Gun'
Nearly twenty years ago, Erik Larson -- now known for Devil in the White City and other books -- published Lethal Passage, which was a carefully reconstructed narrative history of the weapons used in a...
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