Articles 2026
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Hollywood's allure melts under hot lights of Weinstein, Simmons and Ratner scandals
USA Today, November 29, 2017
Glamour is an illusion. It hides flaws, distraction, effort — and darker realities. Glamour may do more than disguise abuse. It can feed it. -
Aluminum-Foil Duties Won't Make America Great
Bloomberg View, November 10, 2017
A Trump tariff on Chinese imports will hurt U.S. workers and companies. It's good for Russia, though.
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The Deep Question Behind Rand Paul's 'Trivial' Dispute
Bloomberg View, November 08, 2017
A neighbor assaulted the senator—reportedly over the meaning of property rights.
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Why Weinstein Held On For So Long and Fell So Fast
Bloomberg View, October 17, 2017
An interview with Timur Kuran, the social scientist who wrote a path-breaking book on "preference falsification."
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Amazon Has a Chance to Redefine Corporate Responsibility
Bloomberg View, October 17, 2017
Amazon can act as a responsible corporate citizen, viewing its headquarters search as a challenge to get cities thinking about how to create better environments for all sorts of enterprises. Or it can ignore ethics and go looking for handouts.
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How to Break the Plastic Surgery Taboo
Bloomberg View, October 03, 2017
Megyn Kelly sparked a furor by asking Jane Fonda about her plastic surgery. It was a good question.
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U.S. Antitrust Law Is Not Broken
Bloomberg View, September 29, 2017
Consumer welfare isn’t a perfect standard, but it’s at least a proxy for the public good.
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Facebook's Pros Still Outweigh Its Cons
Bloomberg View, September 23, 2017
I wanted to quit. Here's why I decided to stay.
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When Tin Ceilings Were High-Tech
Reason, October 2017
From modern fake to authentic reproduction, the rise and fall and rise of a "Renaissance-meets-the-industrial-revolution" material.
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Why Evangelicals Want Immigration Reform
Bloomberg View, September 11, 2017
To liberals who think of evangelical Christians as backward southern whites -- to put it in relatively polite terms -- the pro-immigrant stance of many evangelical leaders may come as a shock. But immigrants and their children are playing an increasingly prominent role in the evangelical world.