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Essays & Op-Eds

  • The Overlooked Americans: The Resilience of Our Rural Towns and What It Means for Our Country
    July 6, 2023
    Next Big Idea Club
  • Playing up the US urban-rural divide misses the real problem
    November 30, 2021
    Financial Times
  • The Endless Pursuit of Better
    Summer 2021
    The Hedgehog Review
  • A Pandemic Isn’t a Reason to Abolish the SAT
    May 1, 2020
    The New York Times
  • The False Stereotype of Two Americas
    December 26, 2018
    The Wall Street Journal
  • Apple’s New $1,000 iPhone X Is Luxuriously Out of Touch
    September 14, 2017
    TIME
  • 5 ways to tell if you belong among the new elites — the ‘aspirational class’
    June 26, 2017
    Marketwatch
  • Conspicuous consumption is over. It’s all about intangibles now
    June 7, 2017
    Aeon
  • Give Breast Milk
    March 27, 2015
    The New York Times
  • What People Spend Where
    December 13, 2014
    The New York Times
  • New York’s Fashion Industry Reveals a New Truth about Economic Clusters
    February 10, 2014
    Harvard Business Review
  • The 21st Century Silver Spoon
    November 9, 2013
    The New York Times
  • Troubling Talent Drain
    August 21, 2012
    Los Angeles Times
  • The Secret Science of Stardom
    February 24, 2012
    Salon
  • How Kim Kardashian Turns the Reality Business into an Art
    November 2, 2011
    The Wall Street Journal
  • Where Do Bohemians Come From?
    October 15, 2011
    The New York Times
  • Why Narcissism Defines Our Times
    December 8, 2010
    The Wall Street Journal
  • Hollywood’s New Blacklist: A Lesson for Creative Industries
    November 11, 2010
    Harvard Business Review
  • Networking Lessons from the Hollywood A-List
    October 25, 2010
    Harvard Business Review
  • The Blacklist: What it Can and Cannot Do For Hollywood
    December 11, 2009
    Los Angeles Times
  • The New Bohemia and Why We Must Save It
    September 14, 2007
    The Times
  • Bohemian Rhapsody
    July 31, 2005
    The New York Times
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