Page 61 of 506 · Back to latest writing
Doug Irwin, an economist and historian of U.S. trade policy, shows how tariffs, protectionism, legislative bargaining, and deficits interact, grounding debates about international markets in the political mechanics and historical consequences of restricting trade.
Dani Rodrik, a Turkish-American Harvard economist, studies trade, industrial policy, and development through the Globalization Trilemma: full economic integration cannot coexist with both national sovereignty and democracy, revealing why domestic priorities repeatedly collide with global markets.
Craig Newmark, builder of Craigslist, organized local communities through a plain-text classifieds site and wagered that simplicity and decent treatment outperform profit maximization, carrying that ethic from hands-on customer service into support for journalism and cybersecurity.
Coleman Hughes, a writer and podcaster, defends colorblind public policy and universal humanism against identity-based orthodoxies, emphasizing individual agency, class, and culture over race-centered approaches to racial disparities in The End of Race Politics.
Chris Arnade, a former Wall Street bond trader turned photographer and interviewer, documents poverty and community through the divide between America’s credentialed “front row” and working-class “back row,” challenging the reach and assumptions of elite technocracy.
Charles C. Mann, a science journalist known for 1491 and 1493, dismantles the myth of an untouched pre-Columbian Americas, tracing indigenous societies, disease-driven demographic collapse, the biological fallout of European contact, and competing strategies for environmental survival.
Carl Zimmer, a science journalist covering biology and evolution, uses parasites, the boundaries of biological life, and other strange natural realities to show how sustained scientific inquiry unsettles everyday assumptions and resists deceptively simple definitions.
Bruno Maçães, a Portuguese political scientist and former government minister, tracks shifting global power through the idea of a single Eurasian supercontinent, examining how technology, China’s rise, and American politics may reshape modern statecraft and world order.