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Three institutions that stood at the heart of the neoliberal regime that ran the world from the 1980s onward--Harvard, McKinsey and the World Economic Forum (WEF)--are all in a state of crisis, bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

Harvard is at war with the Trump administration; McKinsey has trimmed its global workforce by 10%; the World Economic Forum is in meltdown, bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

Harvard, McKinsey and the World Economic Forum share the same original sin: infatuation with success, particularly material success, at any cost. bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

The cult of winning led Harvard, McKinsey and the World Economic Forum to an uncritical celebration of both globalization and technical expertise, bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

I suspect that McKinsey has permanently sacrificed its reputation for ethical and intellectual leadership, becoming just one consultancy among many, and that the WEF has entered a death spiral. bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

The world needs a different model of leadership from the one that prevailed during the neoliberal era, a model that puts less emphasis on success, globalization and expertise, and more on service, belonging and wisdom. bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

Although many hoped otherwise, we do not seem to be returning to a world in which the center left and the center right compete over tax rates or budgets: Every election is now existential theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

Poland’s new president is the latest political leader obsessed with muscle. Adrian Wooldridge explains why it will inevitably make Poland weaker 🎥

Harvard, Duke, Stanford and other wealthy universities are hoping to avoid a huge potential tax hike by pitching an alternative plan to Congress: a pledge to spend more of their own money on.wsj.com/4jAQK0X

There’s a reason why #Harvard, #McKinsey and #Davos, the three institutions that once claimed to run a #globalizing world, are simultaneously in crisis, says Adrian Wooldridge bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

Housebuilders can still build beautiful high quality homes when they want to - or need to. This is Foundry Field in Burnham Market, Norfolk, by the developers Hill and Fleur. Every detail is well done, from the flintwork to the windows to the pantile roof. maps.app.goo.gl/YbADJmoc6fFkjj…

"Broken Windows Theory" is like "Great Man Theory": despised and disputed by academics who don't like its ideological implications but intuitively correct and backed by real world observations.

Yet more evidence that the Democrats are in their late Soviet phase

Wrote this in January. Now watch developments in LA

Exactly

We all know that courts have too much power over our country's immigration policy. But increasingly they're also telling businesses exactly what to pay their workers. Sounds mad? That’s because it is. And it's going to destroy our economy. A 🧵 on the Equality Act:

Read @charleskingdc’s 2020 essay on what the decline of the Soviet Union looked like from the inside—and why great powers can be blind to their own decay until collapse is imminent: foreignaffairs.com/russia-fsu/how…

Great and clarifying piece from Ezra Klein. "Abundance liberalism" doesn't lack a theory of power. Rather, it rejects anti-corporate populists' monomaniacal conception of it.

The president hasn’t purged idealism from GOP foreign policy, @JAWillick writes. He has just redirected it. wapo.st/4dOzcgD