Tweet Post Share Buy Copies Why don’t successful people and organizations automatically become very successful? One important explanation is due to what I call “the clarity paradox,” which can be summ

One of my favorite writers on health care is Atul Gawande. As a doctor, he speaks from his experience within the system, but he is always looking from insights from outside. He is passionate but hones

“If you’re going to criticize, you should propose,” Ryan says of his budget plan. Illustration by Jorge Arévalo One day in March, 2009, two months after the Inauguration of President Obama, Representa

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Filed under: City Hall Lightfoot vows to show ‘path forward’ in Thursday’s ‘state of the city’ address As she looked back on the past 100 days on Wednesday, the mayor was cryptic about the days ahead. "We’re not going to be laying out in specific detail: here’s what our costs are, here’s what our…

This video was uploaded in 2010, but it is literally the most thought-provoking short documentary I’ve seen this year. It would take a heart of stone not to find the Mast Brothers and their hand-made fleur-de-sel-dusted Brooklyn chocolate bars somewhat funny. The YouTube commenters have a laugh,…

on Jul 7, 2012 at 10:04 pm Share The announcement of the Supreme Court’s decision largely upholding the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act on Thursday, June 28 precipitated a genuine media dra

Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960–2010, by CharlesMurray, Crown Forum, 400 pages, $27 Unless you live in a cave, you know the controversial work andreputation of Charles Murray. Losing Ground , published in1984, proposed eliminating welfare as we knew it and became thetemplate for…

"Don't Eat Fortune's Cookie" Michael Lewis June 3, 2012 — As Prepared (NOTE: The video of Lewis' speech as delivered is available on the Princeton YouTube channel .) Thank you. President Tilghman. Tru

Trollhattan Journal Swedes’ Twitter Voice: Anyone, Saying (Blush) Almost Anything Erik Isberg, a high school student, tweeted from a National Day celebration on Wednesday in his hometown, Trollhattan.

"This Land Is Your Land," Woody Guthrie's most famous song, has been sung by school children, scouts, church choirs, and war veterans. Its message of freedom and hope make it quintessential Woody. So

30 Rock is a tentpole show in many ways. It’s beloved by critics. It’s won multiple Emmys. It’s a goofy meta-commentary on TV production that has made its way into the mainstream, thanks in large part to its stellar cast and comedic mastermind/creator Tina Fey . But credit is also due to Robert…

THANK YOU for the screen shot. I was actually already aware that the type on my site is big. I designed it that way. And while I’m grateful for your kind desire to help me, I actually do know how the

During the first-ever Digital Learning Day, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and Federal Communications Commission chief Julius Genachowski unveiled an ambitious plan earlier this year to get s

“Within five years after discount retailing pioneer Korvette’s opened its first store in 1957, over a dozen copycat discounters had emerged. In contrast, the giant discount furniture retailer IKEA has

Having just adopted a French bulldog named Dumpling, I'm quickly finding out that taking care of a puppy is very similar to taking care of a good cast iron pan, and in some ways, almost as satisfying.

THE first industrial revolution began in Britain in the late 18th century, with the mechanisation of the textile industry. Tasks previously done laboriously by hand in hundreds of weavers' cottages we

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But Amy didn't buy the data. She almost jumped off the sofa that night as the tired couple unwound before heading upstairs to bed. Her gaze was fixed on the lesions and black-and-blue marks, her greenish-blue eyes aflame. She took a closer look and began to tremble. The knowledge she'd gleaned from…

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Behind bold facades lie a thousand small humiliations. Abraham Lincoln grew so depressive that he couldn’t, for a while, be trusted near sharp objects . Ella Fitzgerald started her singing career afte

Media Platforms Design Team Published in the April 2012 issue Twenty-five years ago young Americans had a chance. In 1984, American breadwinners who were sixty-five and over made ten times as much as

ALMOST exactly a year ago, I found myself reporting the fuss in Brussels about the failure of the Lisbon Strategy, the European Union's 10-year plan to make Europe "the most dynamic and competitive kn

Illustration by Charlie Powell. In March 2009, Golan Levin, the director of Carnegie Mellon University’s interdisciplinary STUDIO for Creative Inquiry, invited an enigmatic and famed computer programm

Last night, 60 minutes did a story on Khan Academy . For those of you who don’t know, Khan Academy is a collection of free video lectures. It was started as a way for the founder, Sal Khan, to help a

Like most of the American staff, Jayne Howell rarely went outside the walls of the Kabul embassy. Beyond the blast barriers and fences of green anti-sniper netting was a city where "official Americans

Recently, while on vacation in New Orleans for Mardi Gras and visiting family, we stayed at my sister’s house. She was kind enough to let us have her place while she found accommodations elsewhere. Sh

Download “Make Your Thing” Manifesto (PDF) Make Your Thing: 12 Point Program for Absolutely, Positively 1000% No-Fail Guaranteed Success For the past two years or so, I’ve been crisscrossing the country, delivering an award-winning talk called Make Your Thing. (I should note that it has not won any…

I was in high school, he was 45. I didn't realize at the time that he was abusing his power and authority over me WATCH: Here’s the fake-debate “SNL” skit that caused Donald Trump to melt down in real life Kate McKinnon and Alec Baldwin open "Saturday Night Live" with a pitch-perfect skewering of…

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Last year saw 500% growth for the online eyewear brand, Warby Parker . The company is disrupting prices in a business historically rife with mark-ups, all while advancing a social mission of bringing

[Update: I've consolidated all of my TV anachronisms posts at a different blog, Prochronism , and new ones on Mad Men, Deadwood, Downton Abbey, and the rest are going there.] It's Monday, so let's run

In the late 1990s, when his fellow University of Chicago professor Barack Obama had just run for the Illinois State Senate and long before a newly inaugurated President Obama named him to his Council

Earlier this week I got a nice comment from Jeff Hochstetler, a student at Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary, who asked a great question : Do you think that for a Pietistic vision to be successfu