REFRAME YOUR INBOX
Reframe Your Inbox is an email newsletter and podcast that features updates about my recent work (sometimes including additional insights and context about those stories), as well as “Sunday Conversations,” a semi-regular interview series with authors, writers, journalists, researchers, and others whose work I’ve found interesting and inspiring. I’ve also published essays on topics ranging from the odd parallels between authoritarian leaders and Big Tech platforms to the power of consuming analog content in our digital world.
April 21, 2024: ‘First of all, make sure you’re treating human beings with dignity and respect.’ A conversation with Alison Taylor, author of ‘Higher Ground: How Business Can Do the Right Thing in a Turbulent World.’ [Head here to listen to the full audio, or search for “Reframe Your Inbox” in your podcast app.]
November 29, 2023: Ray Dalio and the Allure of Billionaire B.S. Rob Copeland’s ‘The Fund’ is an indictment of the elite compulsion to conflate wealth with genius. [Features additional material about my review in The Lever]
November 5, 2023: ‘Changing our minds is one of the most difficult and heroic things we can do.’ A conversation with Stephen Markley, author of ‘The Deluge: A Novel.’
September 30, 2023: ‘Inside every lean entrepreneur is a monopolist struggling to get out.’ A conversation with Henry Farrell and Abraham Newman, authors of ‘Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy.’ [Part 1] [Part 2]
August 25, 2023: ‘That’s the distinction between forgiveness and forgetting. It’s not about acting like it didn’t happen.’ A conversation with Bethel Abera, founder and director of Hidden Scars.
July 12, 2023: Big Oil’s ‘Two-Level Game’ Against Climate Action. Oil and gas companies are touting their support for groups like the Climate Leadership Council—while doubling down on fossil fuels. [Features additional material about my article in The Guardian]
May 17, 2023: The ‘Market Radicals’ Fighting for Capitalism Without Democracy. Quinn Slobodian’s ‘Crack-Up Capitalism’ shows how the interests of CEOs, investors, and ideologues are converging to undermine democracy. [Features additional material about my article in The Atlantic]
May 6, 2023: ‘Private equity firms can profit off these companies even if the companies don’t survive.’ A conversation with Brendan Ballou, author of ‘Plunder: Private Equity’s Plan to Pillage America.’ [Part 1] [Part 2]
December 11, 2022: ‘I really believe in the sacredness of people choosing the future together.’ A conversation with Anand Giridharadas, author of ‘The Persuaders’ and ‘Winners Take All.’ [Part 1] [Part 2]
November 20, 2022: The CEOs (Still) Aren’t Going to Save Us. Executives promise ‘stakeholder capitalism,’ but as two new books show, profits still come first.
November 6, 2022: How the White House Is Rolling Out Its Landmark Climate Law. The monumental potential of the Inflation Reduction Act comes with a monumental to-do list.
May 8, 2022: ‘They’re out to push their interests. That’s what they’re optimized to do.’ A conversation with Tariq Fancy, former chief investment officer for sustainable investing at BlackRock.
May 1, 2022: ‘The progressivity of the Union approach contrasted with the utter backwardness of the South.’ A conversation with Roger Lowenstein, author of ‘Ways and Means: Lincoln and His Cabinet and the Financing of the Civil War.’ [Part 1] [Part 2]
April 17, 2022: ‘They need to start doing what they say they’re doing, rather than putting our pensions into autocrats’ war chests.’ A conversation with Josephine Moulds, reporter for The Bureau of Investigative Journalism.
October 24, 2021: ‘I kept throwing myself at the world and wondering why everything pulled me to pieces.’ A conversation with Katherine May, author of ‘Wintering’ and ‘The Electricity of Every Living Thing.’ 🎧 [Part 1] [Part 2]