How Serbian Dua Lipa Shut Down the Trolls and Conquered International Pop

How Dua Lipa Shut Down the Trolls and Conquered International Pop

 “THERE WAS JUST THIS PRESSURE…PEOPLE JUST TELLING ME THAT I WASN’T GOOD ENOUGH OR THAT I WASN’T DESERVING OF IT OR WHATEVER IT WAS…”

Stowe Boyd: "Our Idea Of Power Is Changing. Men Have Long Worshipped Power; The Power Of Arms, The Power Of..."

Servant Leadership: Does it Work?

My review of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s Between Two Millstones, Book 2: Exile in America, 1978-1994 is published today in the Los Angeles Review of Books.

The Complex 50-Year Collapse of U.S. Public Transit Bloomberg

Facebook hits $1 trillion value after judge rejects antitrust complaints Reuters. Now they can hire even better lawyers

SEC Issues First-Ever Penalties for Deficient Cybersecurity Risk Controls JD Supra

Six Days in Suez: The Inside Story of the Ship That Broke Global Trade Bloomberg. Tight coupling broke global trade, not Boaty McBoatface. Well worth a read.

Alasdair Beckett-King (previously) presents a seriously true crime story. Some of the details are a little distracting. In all honesty, you have to feel for the writers who must create pseudonyms for police procedurals that run for twenty years or more- it must be hard to come up with names that don't either repeat or sound completely ridiculous. Beckett-King revealed that his own alias is an anagram: "King Abelard Caketits."

When You Change Names To Protect The Innocent

When the Medicis reclaimed control of Florence in 1512, artists had two choices: flee — as Michelangelo did — or Flatter flat 

Voltaire is said to have consumed 72 cups a day; Balzac ate the grounds directly. Did coffee help cause the Enlightenment?... Coffee