Mark Gerson is an author, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. He wrote for The Weekly Standard between 1999 and 2005, contributing pieces on technology, culture, and policy. He is known for his early career work exploring neoconservative intellectual history and for his philanthropic efforts in global health and education.
I RETURNED FROM A TRIP to Israel last week, at the beginning of what promises to be one of the most wrenching seasons in the country's history. The "disengagement" (the tolerable if imprecise and probably misleading term used to describe the Israeli pullout from the Gaza Strip, now scheduled for…
Moneyball
With so much in print -- most of it worthless -- claiming to explain the unprecedented economic growth of the last decade, it's tempting to ignore Michael Wolf's new book. But that would be a mistake. Wolf, a lawyer with a media and entertainment practice, offers in The Entertainment Economy an…
Kevin Kelly is executive editor of Wired magazine, the monthly bible of the techno-utopians, and his book New Rules for the New Economy is techno-utopianism in all its fullness: adolescent rantings against authority; promiscuous generalizations that would be maddening if they weren't so silly;…