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Water Off A Duck’s Back: Ethical Consumption and Outrage in the Digital Age
How do you protest a television show that you’ve never seen? Do you refuse to watch the entire network? Do you boycott any store that sells the show’s merchandise? Do you find viewers and convince them...
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How Cyclical Thinking Might Help You Save Money
Whether it’s a lack of decent-paying jobs or an advertising-induced confusion between wants and needs or a propensity to spend without simultaneously practicing the refined art of saving, many...
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Why Your Shoes Won’t Save the World
Last year, GiveDirectly made headlines for doing just that: giving cash directly to the poor. The charity makes monetary transfers to households in Kenya and Uganda. There are no eligibility...
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You’re Richer Than You Think
A few years ago, The New York Times ran a front-page story on “working-class millionaires.” The reporter found not one, but a handful of Silicon Valley millionaires who didn’t feel rich. One of these...
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Will We Ever Be Able to Enjoy a Shorter Work Week?
Workers of the world, rejoice: The 40-hour work week may soon be a thing of the past. The governing coalition of the city of Gothenburg, Sweden, has proposed a year-long experiment with an alternative...
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You, Yes You, Can Analyze Data, Too
Big data is everywhere. You probably hear people talking about data on the subway, or the radio, or by the water cooler. You turn on the TV, and the news is all about data. We’re using data to find...
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The Work-Play Balance in America vs. the World
In 1956, General Motors presented an optimistic vision of the future that involved less work and more play. In a short, surreal musical titled Design for Dreaming, produced to promote that year’s...
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On Vegas Strip, Blackjack Rule Change Is Sleight of Hand
In casino parlance, the term “cooler” has two meanings. It may refer to a deck of cards that’s been fixed in a way to slow down a winning streak at a hot table. Ever get a good blackjack groove...
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The Magical Thinking of Silver Swindlers
If you’re looking for the “cutting edge of numismatics”—and who, after all, is not—GovMint.com suggests you contact the Royal Mint of Australia, famous among coin-fanciers for forging the world’s first...
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Why I’m Not Sharing My Coke
It was a long dog day. I was home early, and out of cold brew coffee, so in only an hour, I drank two Diet Cokes. The empty cans sat like unsigned yearbooks on the table where I was writing: “BFF” and...
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Should I Pay My Rent With a Credit Card?
Oh hey there, first of the month. You again? Great. Let me find my checkbook. And a stamp. And a pen. And the rent slip, which my building’s management company sent to my old roommate who moved out and...
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Would You Like a Subscription With Your Coffee?
Every Starbucks is exactly the same. Or at least, that’s the promise. Customers will encounter the same sickly green logo, the same soothing interior decoration, and the same...
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The Price of American Eugenics
From the early decades of the 20th century until 1974, 32 states in the union mandated the sterilization of more than 65,000 citizens. At the behest of government eugenics boards, girls and women had...
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Buying Out Your Boss: Worker Cooperatives Are the Future of Small Business
The recent Market Basket strike—25,000 employees from 71 stores—was characterized by a Boston Review- and MIT Sloan-sponsored roundtable as The Summer of Market Basket. Unlike the summer’s other labor...
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