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October 30, 2024
Ross Rosenfeld
How America’s Craven Plutocrats Busted the Myth of the Business Hero
The members of the billionaire executive class have billed themselves as great men of history beyond scrutiny and reproach. This is the year that shattered the illusion.
December 20, 2021
MagazineMoira Weigel
The Making of Peter Thiel’s Networks
Who Peter Thiel is does not really matter. What matters about him is whom he connects.
March 3, 2020
Rumaan Alam
Is the iPhone a Work of Art?
Nicholas Fox Weber’s new book connects the ubiquitous device to the canon.
September 27, 2019
MagazineKim Phillips-Fein
The Failed Political Promise of Silicon Valley
Tech was meant to help us transcend our most intractable problems. What went wrong?
August 14, 2019
Alexander Sammon
The Last of the Ayn Rand Acolytes
This year's Objectivist Conference revealed that her cult of hyper-capitalism has a major recruiting problem: All the young people want to be socialists!
October 9, 2015
Jacob Silverman
“Steve Jobs” Is a Magnificent Piece of Consumerist Propaganda
The Apple chairman as corporate tyrant and consumer saint
December 6, 2013
Bryan Appleyard
Is This the Death of Apple?
August 21, 2013
John B. Judis
The GOP Plan to Crush Silicon Valley
What will become of Steve Jobs’s angel?
May 30, 2013
Michael Shellenberger, Ted Nordhaus
The Myth of the Lone Inventor
Tesla CEO Elon Musk is wrong to oppose government subsidies. After all, he benefitted from them.
April 26, 2013
Molly Young
Our Delusional Celebration of the Entrepreneur
November 15, 2012
Jeremy Denk
Bach’s Music, Back Then and Right Now
October 31, 2012
Lydia DePillis
Does This Week’s Management Putsch Mean Apple is Becoming a Normal Company?
September 12, 2012
Lydia DePillis
Goodbye, iPhone Rollout Event. Hello, iPhone Rollout Season!
July 17, 2012
Jonathan Cohn
The Bain Economy and What to Do About It
March 21, 2012
Ruth Franklin
Some Works of Art Can’t Be Labeled as Fact or Fiction, and That’s OK
February 22, 2012
Evgeny Morozov
Form and Fortune
January 23, 2012
Gary Burtless
Why Apple Went to China, Con'd
November 1, 2011
Isaac Chotiner
Explaining Steve Jobs’s Genius
October 28, 2011
Timothy Noah
They Never Listen
October 21, 2011
Timothy Noah
Eric Cantor, Lake Wobegon Egalitarian

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