Serious investment thinking that doesn’t take itself too seriously.
Suppose you suggested to a company manager that they adopted an initiative which was guaranteed to split their workforce and customer base politically. Half of people would love it, and the other half would hate it. A manager would normally be expected to pass up an opportunity to annoy half of...
It’s all anyone wants to talk about. At a time of unprecedented media fragmentation - where there are fewer and fewer shared cultural moments, because we’re all consuming content...
The 2024 Olympic Dream lasted two months. In Paris, there was magic in the air. As if by magic, even grumbling – a national sport in France – vanished. Twelve months later,...
I’ve often thought that we Midwesterners are the most compliant people on Earth, trusting to the point of accepting insult with a smile, and I thought so again on Sunday when I...
I didn’t know The Derby was on Saturday until the next day when I spotted a newspaper montage of flamboyant fashion photos of some who had made it to Epsom Downs. Too late...
I flew to Duluth Saturday to an enormous hockey arena to watch my tall handsome grandson in his black robe and mortarboard walk forward and accept his college degree. What made...
I am not surprised about the rift that occurred between me and Donald Trump, I always knew that his friendships are measured in months and though he said beautiful things about...
Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, were shot and killed in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, a mile from where I grew up, where my dad built a house in 1947 and he and Mother...
America this Week returns with a discussion of Graham Greene's uncanny prediction about Vietnam, Harvard, and the danger of the managerial "expert"....
Just before Christmas I attended the funeral of my old housemaster, Forbes Wastie. A man I adored, he also taught biology and in later life was Chair of the local magistrate’s...