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 (Glorious) Story of Magazines
It is routine now to declare legacy institutions as in irreversible decline or already dead. I could have called this…
If everything is a crisis, then nothing is a crisis — until now. We are engulfed in a genuine crisis of the very greatest magnitude — health, economic, political, racial. And yet it is hard to grasp the scale of this moment because we have devalued the meaning of…
A Facebook Initiative
On January 19, 2006, I launched a column (then probably called a blog) named “Platform” on the website of The Century Foundation where I was a senior fellow in addition to my continuing efforts on behalf of PublicAffairs, the publishing company I had founded.