The Internet Is The Message, Pt. I

Marshall McLuhan’s aphorism, “the medium is the message,” is just as true, and misunderstood, today as it was 40 years ago. Yet the onslaught of “new media,” “social media” and “interactive media” makes the advent...

Adam Smith and the Liberace Effect

One of the holy books of the Mammon-worshipping Church of the MBA is Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations. One of the things I like about Smith is his intellectual ju-jitsu on the issue of the essential amorality of markets. Sure, Smith says, the people buying and...