Jill Lepore
How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future
As a diagnosis, it’s too vague to be helpful – but its rise tells us a lot about the way we work.
In the past two centuries, the evolution of the U.S. Census has tracked the country’s social tensions and reflected its political controversies. Now its future is in question.
A History of the United States
What the gospel of innovation gets wrong.
Probably, but don’t count yourself out.