Universities Won’t Like What It Would Take to Truly Say No to Trump
Oped in Barron’s April 15 2025 “By now, it must have dawned on elite universities that the Trump administration’s campaign
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“Fight”? Some post election thoughts
I have no truck with the language DJT uses against his real and imagined enemies. It is beyond the pale.
Read MoreThe New Emperor’s Old Clothes (Project Syndicate op-ed)
My Skeptical View of the AI Frenzy After nearly two years of focusing on book writing, I returned to an
Read MoreWhose company? Whose oversight?
https://www.wsj.com/business/elon-musk-spacex-loan-269a2168 The WSJ story is interesting. Some WSJ reader comments even more so. They defend Musk on three grounds: On
Read MoreThe dangers of dismantling local zoning rules
Well said Joel Kotkin! Zoning rules have become a target in many libertarian circles. Joel Kotkin who I believe is
Read MoreThe Selective Sovietization of American Capitalism
Project Syndicate Op-ed This oped, just published in Project Syndicate memorializes Janos Kornai. I never met Janos but we published
Read MoreHow the orthodoxy in academic and policy macroeconomics has changed.
Per Larry Summers (quoted in Robert Armstrong’s FT piece) “The first edition of Paul Samuelson’s textbook [Economics from 1948]
Read MoreKabul on the Charles
The day Kabul fell I found myself at a Peet’s in Harvard Square. I had an inkling the barista might
Read MoreGood things come from those who hustle
Today’s Wall Street Journal has an interview with a U Penn historian, whose image of the Founding Fathers is similar
Read MoreCapitalism Won’t Thrive on Value Investing Alone (just published HBR.org oped)
First oped in more than a year (when I was maniacally trying to get my medical innovation course done… Trigger
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