harry reichenbach in the digital age

On June 6th, 1920, press stuntman Harry Reichenbach booked musician T.R. Zan into an exclusive New York hotel. His luggage consisted of a massive packing case thought to contain a piano. When Mr. Zan ordered 50 pounds of meat for breakfast, an inquiry followed, revealing that the meat was for a lion enclosed in the […]

the manhattan institutes warped view

A recent report by Oren Cass of the Manhattan Institute dismisses scientific evidence on the impact of climate change with a simplistic solution: when global temperatures rise, people just need to turn on their air conditioners. Since its founding in the late 1970s, the Manhattan Institute has released several controversial studies. However, it has also […]

jeff’s appetite

Amazon just leapfrogged Apple and Google to become the world’s most valuable brand in a new ranking dominated by tech firms. Currently valued at $150.8 billion, it now peddles everything from soap to TV soaps. The company has grown so large and complicated to comprehend that it’s easy to understand why the rest of corporate […]

odd ideas of what constitute an investment

At the end of WWII, John Maynard Keynes famously proposed that the best way to get the UK economy moving at full speed would be to ask the Americans to bomb factories in the UK “at an hour when the directors were sitting there and no one else.” He added: “How else are we to […]

pepsi’s tiananmen square-moment

Last week’s Pepsi TV campaign was excruciating. How does such creative work get signed off? How does an agency’s entire 8-year strategy of socially engineering America to buy more sugary soda conclude with Kendall Jenner defusing a Tiananmen Square-moment with a can of Pepsi? We would have peace in the world if Kendall Jenner handed […]