Peter Osnos’ Platform

A Fond and Grateful Farewell

Welcome to the finale of Peter Osnos’ Platform on Medium. Starting on January 10, this will become a newsletter appearing regularly on Substack. Here’s the reasoning:

Social media and digital delivery are a 21st century phenomenon. It is hard to fully…

The Justice Department’s lawsuit to block the merger of Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster is by any measure a significant matter for book publishing, even though the deal…

Is It Just Age?

As 2021 heads through the final quarter of another year scarred by Covid and too many other crises of one kind or another to keep…

Jobs, Gates, Dell, Sinclair (Who?)

Clive Sinclair, a slender, bespectacled 42-year-old Englishman with a shy smile and a newly fat bank account, sees big…

The Obama Birthday Bash and the Modern Post-Presidency

Ken Feinberg: How The Hell Does He Do It?

Update: “Worth” on Netflix is a successful portrait of a unique process and the people…

Is This Time Different?

On March 15, 1965, before a joint session of Congress, President Lyndon Baines Johnson gave the most memorable speech of his…

The Pentagon Papers at Fifty and America’s Willful Hubris

Is Trump History? Or Even Historic?

Notwithstanding “The Big Lie” about the results of the 2020 election or the recent ascendency of…