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Today my longtime book editor, Jonathan Segal, turns 80. Or, as he would write in the margin, “eighty (spell out numbers up to 100).” I hope Jon lives long enough to stop being spelled out. Because I still need editing — and so does this world of ours.
Jon and I have worked on three books together now: Winners Take All, my third and...
Today, a dip into my notebook: A concert I cannot stop thinking about, representing a musical and intellectual project without compare right now; a new “museum” that turns the ethereal Epstein files into something very tangible indeed, and may be an irritation for Donald Trump; how to better entertain a family; and billionaire taxation may finally be having its moment.
In this conversation with Joanna Coles of The Daily Beast, I tried to situate the Epstein story in a larger historical context. America, for all its faults, once earnestly strived toward the idea that no man is better than any other or above the law. It has never achieved the ideal, but it has pursued it. What the Epstein story and the impunity it highlights make clear is how...
Justin Wolfers is a master of demystification. This thing we call the economy runs our lives, sometimes invisibly, sometimes very, very visibly and tangibly, but it often eludes our understanding.
So I caught up with Justin in this conversation and put to him some of the economics questions that have been on my mind lately:
— What is the true cost of the war on an...
When they hear Toni Morrison’s fiery sermons on race, or read her searing work, people often assume she would have been a fan of modern cancel culture, according to Namwali Serpell, author of the brilliant new deconstruction, “On Morrison.”...