The point of this newsletter is simple: data-driven startup analysis.
I read dozens of research reports, scan obscure subreddits, and cold email people that I’m not supposed to. I dig deep into each and every internet nook and cranny.
A newsletter about the complexity of making good public policy in the midst of a global pandemic.
The COVID-19 pandemic has challenged global policy makers in ways unheard of in most of our lifetimes. Fraught as they were, the credit crisis
We all have brains that are sometimes sweet and sometimes dumb. This is an attempt to explore my sweet dumb brain, and to hopefully glean lessons that will help you understand yours a little better.
Every so often — weekly, perhaps — you’ll get an email with links to interesting things to read, links to what I’ve been writing, and short discussions of the issues of the day, or at least ...
I don't have many promises to give. I plan to be helter-skelter. I plan to be rebellious. I plan to break the rules. Sometimes you will find my musings on the world, on politics, on Christianity, on social justice. Sometimes you will find a fiction
Historians are fond of saying that the past doesn’t repeat itself; it rhymes.
To understand the present, we have to understand how we got here.
That’s where this newsletter comes in.
I’m a professor of American history.
The true Crime that's worth your time.
As you course know, the true crime genre has exploded since The Blotter first launched in 2011. Kids, ask your parents -- back then, to scratch our itch we often had to resort to pulp paperbacks and...
Grown-ass lady storytelling by and for gen-x women over 40. Featuring pop culture nuggets, profiles, day to day stuff we’re obsessed with, and personal essays.
This newsletter is about food and its constellation of concerns, from politics and labor and hospitality and sourcing and everything else. On Monday, I send out an essay, along with notes on what I’ve published, read, and cooked. On Wednesday,