In Germany, Musk is pursuing disruption for its own sake

Elon Musk could have retired after making his first fortune with PayPal. He had more than enough money for a lifetime and might have devoted his remaining years to spending it. Instead, he brought his energy and enterprise to Tesla, then SpaceX, then X, and is now throwing himself with the same intensity into politics. […]

In Germany, Musk is pursuing disruption for its own sake

Elon Musk could have retired after making his first fortune with PayPal. He had more than enough money for a lifetime and might have devoted his remaining years to spending it. Instead, he brought his energy and enterprise to Tesla, then SpaceX, then X, and is now throwing himself with the same intensity into politics. […]

Netflix’s non-adaptation of One Hundred Years of Solitude

“In a short time, man will be able to see what is happening anywhere in the world without leaving his own house,” the gypsy chief Melquiades prophesies to the settlers of Macondo on Page 2 of One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Fast-forward 415 pages, and we learn that Melquiades’s chronicle of […]

In Germany, Musk is pursuing disruption for its own sake

Elon Musk could have retired after making his first fortune with PayPal. He had more than enough money for a lifetime and might have devoted his remaining years to spending it. Instead, he brought his energy and enterprise to Tesla, then SpaceX, then X, and is now throwing himself with the same intensity into politics. […]

In Germany, Musk is pursuing disruption for its own sake

Elon Musk could have retired after making his first fortune with PayPal. He had more than enough money for a lifetime and might have devoted his remaining years to spending it. Instead, he brought his energy and enterprise to Tesla, then SpaceX, then X, and is now throwing himself with the same intensity into politics. […]

Netflix’s non-adaptation of One Hundred Years of Solitude

“In a short time, man will be able to see what is happening anywhere in the world without leaving his own house,” the gypsy chief Melquiades prophesies to the settlers of Macondo on Page 2 of One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Fast-forward 415 pages, and we learn that Melquiades’s chronicle of […]

In Germany, Musk is pursuing disruption for its own sake

Elon Musk could have retired after making his first fortune with PayPal. He had more than enough money for a lifetime and might have devoted his remaining years to spending it. Instead, he brought his energy and enterprise to Tesla, then SpaceX, then X, and is now throwing himself with the same intensity into politics. […]

In Germany, Musk is pursuing disruption for its own sake

Elon Musk could have retired after making his first fortune with PayPal. He had more than enough money for a lifetime and might have devoted his remaining years to spending it. Instead, he brought his energy and enterprise to Tesla, then SpaceX, then X, and is now throwing himself with the same intensity into politics. […]

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In Germany, Musk is pursuing disruption for its own sake

Elon Musk could have retired after making his first fortune with PayPal. He had more than enough money for a lifetime and might have devoted his remaining years to spending it. Instead, he brought his energy and enterprise to Tesla, then SpaceX, then X, and is now throwing himself with the same intensity into politics. […]

In Germany, Musk is pursuing disruption for its own sake

Elon Musk could have retired after making his first fortune with PayPal. He had more than enough money for a lifetime and might have devoted his remaining years to spending it. Instead, he brought his energy and enterprise to Tesla, then SpaceX, then X, and is now throwing himself with the same intensity into politics. […]

Eric Hoffer’s The True Believer and the trouble with academia

Right before Thanksgiving, social media’s latest viral star was born: a Cambridge academic named Ally Louks, who posted a photo of herself on X posing with her successful dissertation only to generate hundreds of thousands of comments mocking her work due to its title, “Olfactory Ethics: The Politics of Smell in Modern and Contemporary Prose.” […]

In Germany, Musk is pursuing disruption for its own sake

Elon Musk could have retired after making his first fortune with PayPal. He had more than enough money for a lifetime and might have devoted his remaining years to spending it. Instead, he brought his energy and enterprise to Tesla, then SpaceX, then X, and is now throwing himself with the same intensity into politics. […]

Netflix’s non-adaptation of One Hundred Years of Solitude

“In a short time, man will be able to see what is happening anywhere in the world without leaving his own house,” the gypsy chief Melquiades prophesies to the settlers of Macondo on Page 2 of One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Fast-forward 415 pages, and we learn that Melquiades’s chronicle of […]

Bourbon Street before terrorism

Before al Qaeda and ISIS, before the age of attacks at crowded celebrations such as the Boston Marathon or the prelude to a Sugar Bowl, the “dangers” at a New Orleans New Year’s celebration were considerably more, well … entertaining. As one year passes to the next, the famous French Quarter is usually jammed in […]

Angela Merkel’s ashes

Angela Merkel hired no fewer than eight English language translators to work on the German text of her new autobiography, Freedom, which is astonishing when one considers how little of substance she has to say.  Upon assuming the chancellorship of Germany in 2005, Merkel made history not only as the first female leader of the […]

Eric Hoffer’s The True Believer and the trouble with academia

Right before Thanksgiving, social media’s latest viral star was born: a Cambridge academic named Ally Louks, who posted a photo of herself on X posing with her successful dissertation only to generate hundreds of thousands of comments mocking her work due to its title, “Olfactory Ethics: The Politics of Smell in Modern and Contemporary Prose.” […]

In Germany, Musk is pursuing disruption for its own sake

Elon Musk could have retired after making his first fortune with PayPal. He had more than enough money for a lifetime and might have devoted his remaining years to spending it. Instead, he brought his energy and enterprise to Tesla, then SpaceX, then X, and is now throwing himself with the same intensity into politics. […]

Netflix’s non-adaptation of One Hundred Years of Solitude

“In a short time, man will be able to see what is happening anywhere in the world without leaving his own house,” the gypsy chief Melquiades prophesies to the settlers of Macondo on Page 2 of One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Fast-forward 415 pages, and we learn that Melquiades’s chronicle of […]

Bourbon Street before terrorism

Before al Qaeda and ISIS, before the age of attacks at crowded celebrations such as the Boston Marathon or the prelude to a Sugar Bowl, the “dangers” at a New Orleans New Year’s celebration were considerably more, well … entertaining. As one year passes to the next, the famous French Quarter is usually jammed in […]

Angela Merkel’s ashes

Angela Merkel hired no fewer than eight English language translators to work on the German text of her new autobiography, Freedom, which is astonishing when one considers how little of substance she has to say.  Upon assuming the chancellorship of Germany in 2005, Merkel made history not only as the first female leader of the […]

Eric Hoffer’s The True Believer and the trouble with academia

Right before Thanksgiving, social media’s latest viral star was born: a Cambridge academic named Ally Louks, who posted a photo of herself on X posing with her successful dissertation only to generate hundreds of thousands of comments mocking her work due to its title, “Olfactory Ethics: The Politics of Smell in Modern and Contemporary Prose.” […]

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