As a kid, I always wondered what it would have been like to live during a time of great drama and discovery--to be there when Columbus landed in America, say, or when the Founding Fathers ratified the Constitution. History was taught in a more black and...
Where do creative ideas come from? Why are some organizations innovative and others slog through in a muddle? What kind of atmosphere is conducive to creativity and ingenuity? The current issue of The New Yorker is devoted to innovation in all of its...
This all-important campaign seems to be going on forever, with strong partisans on each side making the case for their respective candidates. Consumers are being blizzarded by e-mail and buttonholed by friends to voice their support and cast their vote...
Throughout the vast ballroom, collective breaths are being held. People sit on the edge of their plush velvet chairs. Among the assembled, one pushes a stray hair back into place, another adjusts the bow tie that came with the rented tux, a third mentally...
I may not be a poster child for environmental conservation, but in my own urban way, I do my bit. I drive a hybrid (because my kids badgered me to get one when the lease on the last gas guzzler came up), and I feel guilty--sometimes--when I take a swig...