Author Archive: Jonathan Yip

Zombie IR

We were going to run a piece in the fall HPR on potential zombie threats, but Foreign Policy beat us to it! Shucks. A highlight: States could also exploit the threat...

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The Media Doesn’t Get Apple

The Media Doesn’t Get Apple

Pieces like this Newsweek one come out every so often. They compare today’s Apple to the Apple that lost against Microsoft, insisting that Apple is doomed...

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Icing Bros

Icing Bros

James Taranto at the WSJ writes Best of the Web Today and occasionally adds a ruthlessly mocking section titled “Everything is Spinning Out of Control”...

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Generational Inadequacy

Generational Inadequacy

I just finished watching Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks’ The Pacific, an HBO miniseries following a group of marines in WWII. And it was truly epic....

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Kagan!

Kagan!

Sorry, Yale. No contest. I won’t go on about the nomination process, which has been covered to death. But, I just wanted to point out this particularly conspiratorial,...

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Print is Dead. Right?

For the first time in a long time, there’s serious newspaper competition in New York—actually, newspaper competition anywhere would be newsworthy…...

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Bono Saves Africa Again

Bono Saves Africa Again

Our cover here was a joke, but perhaps one not too far from the truth. Bono writes today as an op-ed guest columnist in the New York Times about the “rebooting”...

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The Africa Cover We Didn’t Run
 
Rahm-ed Out

Rahm-ed Out

Rahm Emanuel New York Times Magazine, I know you’ve probably been working on this magnum opus on Rahm Emanuel for weeks, but I feel like...

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Billions for Nothing

Billions for Nothing

Richard Thaler wrote an extremely important piece in the New York Times this past weekend on wireless spectrum auctions. This may sound like the stuff of fantasy...

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