Articles by Edward Tenner
- The Perpetual Passion for Paper Thursday, May 16, 2013
- Paper is becoming less important in some respects, but its strengths — prestige, utility, permanence, and security — are more essential than ever.
- How Economic Nationalism Bites Back Thursday, January 17, 2013
- History suggests protectionism has many more failures than successes.
- An Unnatural History of the Electronic Mouse Thursday, October 25, 2012
- Technology marches on and the mouse is done for, or so we are told. But what if history had been different?
- Apple, Disney, and Dreams of Corporate Utopias Friday, September 28, 2012
- Steve Jobs and Walt Disney: Revered founders and their plans for radical buildings.
- The Fine Art of Resilience: Lessons from Stanley Meltzoff Tuesday, July 24, 2012
- How should artists respond originally to changing technology and fashion?
- Facebook and the Importance of Being Unimportant Monday, June 4, 2012
- Many companies make things you'd never discuss at a cocktail party, yet are indispensable for other things that you would.
- Markets, Risk, and Fashion: The Hindenburg’s Smoking Lounge Friday, May 4, 2012
- The idea of a smoking lounge immediately under 7 million cubic feet of flammable gas should seem ludicrous. But it wasn’t.
- Titanic and the 1% Friday, April 6, 2012
- What’s striking in thinking about class differences in the age of Titanic is not the similarities to inequality in our own time, but the chasm.
- The Naked and the Dead: Weegee’s Lessons for Today Friday, February 24, 2012
- One of the 20th century’s best-known cultural entrepreneurs was a proud member of the 99 percent: Arthur Fellig, better known as Weegee.
- Why I’m an Adbooster Tuesday, January 3, 2012
- Here’s why champions of the 99 percent should applaud advertisers.
- The Dismal New Science of Stagnationism Wednesday, October 26, 2011
- If the future is behind schedule, it may be because the world’s major financial institutions and venture capitalists have not been backing the right ideas.
- Wizards: Cupertino vs. Menlo Park Saturday, October 8, 2011
- Vaclav Smil’s article ‘Steve Jobs Is No Edison’ will offend many, but it raises important questions that need answers.
- Suiting Ourselves Wednesday, April 18, 2007
- For a symbol of conformity, the archetypal men's garment has a remarkably rich history.