by Aseem Gupta | Mar 9, 2025 | Book Summaries and Analysis
John Grisham’s Rogue Lawyer, published in 2015, begins with a familiar legal-thriller proposition and then steadily complicates it. Sebastian Rudd is a criminal-defense lawyer who represents people other attorneys do not want: defendants already condemned by public...
by Aseem Gupta | Mar 1, 2025 | Economics, Markets & Money
In November 2024, Germany’s three-party coalition collapsed after months of conflict over spending, taxation and how to revive an economy that had barely grown for years. A few months later, the Alternative für Deutschland finished second in Germany’s February 2025...
by Aseem Gupta | Jan 11, 2025 | Economics, Markets & Money
On December 4, 2024, UnitedHealthcare chief executive Brian Thompson was shot and killed outside a hotel in Midtown Manhattan. The killing was indefensible. Yet the public conversation that followed quickly moved beyond the crime itself. Investigators found words...
by Aseem Gupta | Dec 21, 2024 | Political Theory, Governance & Ideology
When the Department of Government Efficiency was announced in November 2024, it arrived with a number large enough to transform the United States government: $2 trillion. Elon Musk argued that a team of outsiders could identify waste, eliminate unnecessary programs,...
by Aseem Gupta | Dec 7, 2024 | Economics, Markets & Money
In December 1989, Japan looked like the country that had solved the future. Its companies dominated automobiles, consumer electronics, cameras, semiconductors, machine tools and precision manufacturing. American executives studied Japanese management methods with a...
