All articles tagged: history

The novel In Bed We Cry had early insights into the lives of prosperous working women.

Friday, the Thirteenth, a classic 1907 novel by the muckraker and stock manipulator Thomas Lawson, reminds us that telling stories can weaponize resentment.

What captains of industry can learn from captains in the great age of sail.

In an age of big data, artificial intelligence, and continual forecasting, fiction can help us navigate uncertainty by opening our eyes to a wide range of scenarios.

In his new book, historian Rutger Bregman argues that people are actually fundamentally good.

In his new book, American Business History, Walter A. Friedman offers a highly concise history of free enterprise in the United States.

In Don’t Fall for It, Ben Carlson delves into the psychology of why some people commit fraud — and why others become victims of it.

What the Allied invasion of Normandy has to teach us about the power and utility of organizational agility.