Rattling the Supply Chain
What we talk about when we talk about stuff
Once we’ve gotten comfortable with the basics, we often advance into second-order thinking and take the givens for granted. Then... Read More
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What was your first concert?
The B52s
What was your favorite age growing up?
42
What was your first job?
Ice cream scooper
The Ghost of Kitchens’ Future
But are they a thing of the past?
The terms “Virtual Restaurant” and “Ghost Kitchen” have the ring of the unreal and the uncanny. In practice, though, both... Read More
Deep Schitt
The TV series of the year had much to teach
(Note: This story contains spoilers.) Schitt’s Creek was the ascendant television phenomenon of 2020. The Netflix comedy swept the Emmys... Read More
Dr. Football
An athlete puts his values before his sport
The past year has probably been the most culturally and politically lively in sports in the last half-century. Protests, boycotts,... Read More
A West Virginia of the Mind
Can a state rebrand?
West Virginia is having a moment. It’s grabbing headlines in the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, and the New... Read More
Don’t Stick to Sports, Part 3
In pro basketball, the power of words
The first two installments of this series looked at the social and political impact athletes have made by sitting out... Read More
Segregated Pollution
The pioneering work of Dr. Robert Bullard
Long before “I can’t breathe” drew an explicit connection between race and the environment, there was Dr. Robert Bullard, the... Read More
Making Your Good Place Better
There's opportunity in what feels impossible
In the NBC series The Good Place, Ted Danson’s character Michael is the architect of heaven, to which we humans... Read More
The Storyteller
Writer Megan Mayhew-Bergman leads sustainability into the future
Henry David Thoreau’s 200th birthday was three years ago, and trucks rumble down a four-lane highway hard by his Walden... Read More
I Will Speak, I Will Act
A soccer team puts its values before its record
“If we’re going to wear armbands, and we’re going to wear rainbow-colored [jerseys] during June and kneel before the games,... Read More
Don’t Stick to Sports, Part 2
In the WNBA, a sit-out, not a sit-in
Recently we wrote about Naomi Osaka’s ascendance, not only to triumph at the US Open but to the podium of... Read More
Against Efficiency
What Rube Goldberg is still teaching us
Unassailable evidence of a historic life: your name is synonymous with what you invented. By that definition, Rube Goldberg has... Read More