Amid the raucous Trumpian noise since the election little attention has been paid to the prodigious size of Hillary Clinton’s popular vote win. It’s not just that the Electoral College is an 18th-century idea whose time has passed; it’s much more about the…

Forty years ago, Garrison Keillor contributed the following, one of his New Yorker pieces, to a book I produced called Celebrity: The Media as Image Makers. It served as the envoi to the book, which was a collection of essays by twenty-five writers and…

by ROBERT RUSSEL

As if to prove that Marshall McLuhan wasn’t the only Canadian with a vision of the future, Robert Russel wrote this series of columns on “The Next Medium” for Take One in 1967. They are remarkably prescient, and we have reprinted the entire series so that…

I’ve always been fascinated by credit card fees. When your bank is already charging you any interest rate they like, why antagonize their customers further with hefty nuisance fees? It doesn’t seem to make marketing sense. (Just bump up that “default” rate to something even more usurious than it was before…