The Cult of We, journalism school, and the extreme price we pay for avoiding bullshit jobs

Chicago at the brink

There are two types of people who live in cities: Those who want to and those who need to. If employers continue to let…

A bookend and a beginning

I was a reporter in Kabul in 2009 and 2010, and the 11 years that have passed leave me unqualified to provide…

American tech and the American military find each other, again…maybe?

A few ideas for how the philanthropic sector can support local R&D and technology-enabled growth

Big Tech and the greatest trick ever pulled

Perhaps I shouldn’t have been, but I was a bit flummoxed…

Potemkin Villages and finding value in the 2020s

Biden’s R&D plan and ending the “pro-business” race to the bottom

In my day, proposing $300 billion in new spending would catch some people’s attention.

Yet few noticed last year when then-candidate Joe Biden’s proposed $300 billion in additional federal…

COVID-19 was supposed to reverse decades of economic agglomeration. Is it?

Six books that helped me grow in 2020

There’s a danger is posting “Black Lives Matter” in your window, as my wife and I have done…