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May 4, 2025
MagazineSam Rosenfeld
Michael Lewis’s Paean to Federal Workers Hits Differently Under DOGE
While Elon Musk paints federal bureaucrats as inefficient or worse, Lewis and other literary essayists shine a light on the quiet heroes of the civil service.
September 24, 2024
Timothy Noah
The Washington Post Defends the Trump-Imperiled Civil Service
The paper may not have a great history of covering the federal workforce, but their timely series on the dedicated professionals threatened by the former president is a boon to democracy.
January 5, 2024
MagazineOsita Nwanevu
The Electric Kool-Aid Conservative
Tom Wolfe was no radical.
October 12, 2023
Jacob Bacharach
How Michael Lewis’s Book on Sam Bankman-Fried Went Off the Rails
The CEO of FTX was the worst possible subject for a biographer of real but limited talent: He was boring.
May 11, 2021
Chris Lehmann
The Pandemic Planners Were Ready. No One Listened.
The heroes of Michael Lewis’s new book, “The Premonition,” are a band of intrepid policy entrepreneurs.
August 27, 2018
Jeet Heer
John McCain inspired many great stories in The New Republic.
July 2, 2018
Alex Shephard
Amazon’s Audiobook Boom
The craze for audio storytelling may be the company's best way to compete with traditional publishers when it comes to creating original content.
December 29, 2015
Alex Shephard
“It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble,” which must be why The Big Short opens with a fake Mark Twain quote.
April 24, 2014
Isaac Chotiner
"I Feel Such Despair at How the Government Responded to the Financial Crisis"
A conversation with Michael Lewis
March 29, 2013
Michael Lewis
From the Stacks: 'Toy Goy'
April 26, 1993
March 7, 2013
Marc Tracy
Which Sport Is Most Immune to Moneyball?
Even the experts at the MIT Sloan conference couldn't agree
December 21, 2012
Paul Starr
Nate Silver and the Future of Prediction
December 3, 2012
Marc Tracy
Nate Silver Is Not The Only Solution
September 14, 2012
Leon Wieseltier
Syria Burns on Obama's Back Burner
August 24, 2012
Marc Tracy
NBA Players Back Obama, But One Smart Exec Is For Romney
September 23, 2011
Jonathan Lehman
Why Moneyball Is Still a Poor Ball Club’s Best Friend
September 23, 2011
Nathan Pippenger
Moneyball Proves It: Brad Pitt Is A Genius
August 11, 2011
Jonathan Chait
&c
February 14, 2011
Jonathan Chait
If You Haven't Read Michael Lewis's Latest Vanity Fair Piece By Now...
December 22, 2010
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