Therapy. I get stuck thinking about what seems obvious but never seems to change. Never seems to get fixed. I don’t mean big problems. I mean the small stuff of everyday life. Products, businesses, the way things are. …

Earlier this week, I published an essay on Slate (the title’s a bit dramatic but writers don’t write their titles) about the argument being advanced by many lawyers that Donald Trump is not “qualified” to be elected President because he committed acts of “insurrection or rebellion” under Section 3 of…

Three days ago, I wrote an essay about the accusations raised against Francesca Gino. Based on my judgment about who Francesca is, and evidence about the nature of the evidence against her, I suggested people reserve judgment about whether the charge made against her — that she fabricated or manipulated…

The click machine of modern media can’t resist the story of an HBS professor who studies dishonesty now being charged with falsifying the data behind her research. That claim was first raised against Francesca Gino by Data Colada. As a consequence, Harvard has placed Gino on administrative leave (without pay). …

I floated this image on Twitter to test the reaction it would trigger. That reaction was as I suspected. The challenge to express the point latent in the image — a point I think we all must focus — is as clear now as it was before. …

It’s puzzled me why the new Twitter competitors (and please, more and better!) haven’t done something obvious. And because it seems so obvious, there must be a good reason why they haven’t. Enlighten me? Here’s the obvious idea: When you sign up for BlueSky or Threads or Mastodon or whatever, you give the platform your Twitter handle. You also authorize it to access your account to gather your followers/followed. Then as a step in the signup, the platform gives you the option of following/being followed by the same people when they join that alternative platform.

The reform organization No Labels launched their “Common Sense” campaign at St. Anselm’s in New Hampshire Monday with talks by West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin, and former Utah governor and presidential candidate Jon Huntsman. The group is considering a third-party challenge in 2024. Manchin and Huntsman are said to be…

We live in an age of fantasists, a time when people not quite constrained by reality flourish nonetheless. The term is not as harsh as “fabulist,” a person who lives in a make-believe world (think George Santos). It is more forgiving than “liar,” or “mythomaniac,” the condition of being a…

Chief Justice Roberts is concerned about the consequence of the tone of dissents at the Court. As he writes: It has become a disturbing feature of some recent opinions to criticize the decisions with which they disagree as going beyond the proper role of the judiciary. … Reasonable minds may…