Guarding Hockey’s Grail
“You can hug the Stanley Cup, and you can kiss the Cup, but the main thing I ask is you never try to lift or to move it.”
Philip Roth Goes Home Again
There are worse places to be stuck in traffic than midtown Manhattan, worse people to be stuck with than Philip Roth.
What Amazon Fears Most: Diapers
It is good to be the chief executive of a company that’s about to ship 500 million diapers in a single year. On Marc Lore and Diapers.com
A Force Of Nature
The Man Who Never Was
Desperate to keep his Senate seat, John McCain repudiated his record, his principles, and even his maverick reputation, entrenching himself as the anti-Obama. Which raises the issue of whether the leader so many Americans admired — and so many journalists covered — ever truly existed.
How Elon Musk Turned Tesla Into the Car Company of the Future
Just three years ago, Tesla Motors was in big trouble. The company’s inaugural product—the $109,000 Tesla Roadster—was a money-loser before a single unit had been delivered.
Malcolm Gladwell Is #Wrong
A retort to the writer who claims that social media are not effective tools for activism.
Marvin and Me
Brandt Miller’s grandmother has had her share of issues, but he never thought she’d mistake him for the family’s black sheep—a convicted child molester serving time with Bernie Madoff.
The Blundering Herd
Excerpt: For nearly a century of solid profitability, Merrill Lynch was the company that turned millions of Americans into investors. But by the early 2000s, it had developed a raging case of Goldman Sachs envy.
At Flagging Tribune, Tales of a Bankrupt Culture
After CEO Randy Michaels arrived, according to two people at the bar that night, he sat down and said, ‘watch this,’ and offered the waitress $100 to show him her breasts. The group sat dumbfounded.
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