As part of this week’s continuing series on my son’s friends’ siblings in the news, here’s an interesting story from today’s NYT: When Olivia Lara-Gresty saw the metal detectors at the entrance of Middle School 54 on the Upper West Side, she turned around and ran home to ditch her contraband before joining her sixth-grade [...]
Former Intel boss Andy Grove has a letter to the presidential candidates in the latest Fortune. An excerpt: Your staff is probably working on a big, ambitious plan to fix health care. Depending on whether you lean left or right, it’s either a universal health-care plan or a way to increase market influence throughout the [...]
My latest column is in the issue of Time with an ice-cream sundae on the cover and online here. It begins: In January 1981, as gasoline prices set all-time highs in the wake of the Iran-Iraq war, oil giant Exxon announced that it would pour $11 billion into capital investment and exploration over the course [...]
