There was one sure way, and only one sure way, to get ahead, and everyone with eyes in 1982 saw it: Major in economics; use your economics degree to get an analyst job on Wall Street; use your analyst...
There were a great many interesting questions in the world to which the only honest answer was, It’s impossible to know for sure. What will the price of oil be in ten years? was such a question. That...
They appeared to know enough to justify their jobs, and nothing more.
Things are grouped together for a reason, but, once they are grouped, their grouping causes them to seem more like each other than they otherwise would. That is, the mere act of classification reinfor...
This was tricky. They had, right now, at home, boxes of letters addressed to Michael from college football coaches and boosters and just people who wanted to get to know the future star. They had a pe...
This was yet another consequence of turning Wall Street partnerships into public corporations: It turned them into objects of speculation. It was no longer the social and economic relevance of a bank...
Thomas Pyle, president of the American Energy Alliance, which, upon inspection, proved to be a Washington, DC, propaganda machine funded with millions of dollars from ExxonMobil and Koch Industries. P...
Thousands upon thousands of government employees take to the streets to protest the bill. Here is Greece’s version of the Tea Party: tax collectors on the take, public-school teachers who don’t really...
To the untrained eye, the Wall Street people who rode from the Connecticut suburbs to Grand Central were an undifferentiated mass, but within that mass Danny noted many small and important distinction...
We tried to trademark proximity, but you can’t because it’s a word,
What I learned playing basketball at Ole Miss, he said, was what not to do: beat up a kid. It's easy to beat up a kid. The hard thing is to build him up.
What was the secret to dealing with the assholes? Lift weights or learn karate, said O’Grady.
When Neil Armstrong took his small step from Apollo 11 and looked around, he probably thought, Wow, sort of like Iceland—even though the moon was nothing like Iceland. But then, he was a tourist, and...
Why had so much conventional wisdom been bullshit? And not just in sports but across the whole society. Why had so many industries been ripe for disruption? Why was there so much to be undone?
Why they studied economics, and they’d explain that it was the most practical course of study, even while they spent their time drawing funny little graphs.
Resistance to understanding a threat grows with proximity, writes Kate Brown.)
Anti-intellectual resentment is common in all of American life and it has many diverse expressions,
But if you worry about everything, you wind up worrying about nothing.
Don't worry where I am. I'll tell you when I get there.
Every form of strength is also a form of weakness, he once wrote. Pretty girls tend to become insufferable because, being pretty, their faults are too much tolerated. Possessions entrap men, and wealt...
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