Who Creates Jobs (and Other Critical Questions)

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The most important thing we can do is treat our human capital in this country as our most precious national resource.

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What is an Addict?

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A new broader D.S.M. definition stirs up anger and relief in equal measure.

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Is There a Moral to John Edwards?

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The moral of the Edwards trial is the extent to which we collectively have lost track of what is important and, in fact, have lost track of the truth of what it means to be a man.

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Techno-Dad

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Tom Matlack talks about trying to connect with his kids on a non-electronic level.

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The Images We Focus On

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We become that which we focus on. We are assaulted with a massive dumbing down of foreign policy, of manhood, of nuanced truth.

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Surrender

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Tom Matlack’s fictionalized tale of an ethical crossroads at a tech startup.

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A Guy Named Ray: When Does Income Become Obscene?

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Tom Matlack makes the case for an upper limit on income.

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Bike Share in Boston, Revisited

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A trip to Paris to examine the lessons of Bike sharing, and life, for my hometown of Boston.

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The Feeling of Speed

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When Tom Matlack invested in a tech company other VC’s had left for dead, he had no idea how much it would bring him back to life.

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Don Draper is a Lie

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The desire to be a better man is leaving machismo in the dust and driving modern manhood forward.

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The Male Shadow?

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Tom Matlack looks at the scary stories about the End of Men, and asks what we’re really afraid of.

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Seven Deadly Sins of the 1960s

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Matthew Weiner, creator of the AMC show Mad Men, explores feminist issues in the male-dominated world of Madison Avenue advertising circa 1960.

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David Carr and a Beach in St. Barts

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Tom Matlack reflects on David Carr’s book The Night of the Gun, and recognizes too much of himself in it.

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The Real Goldman

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A senior banker at Goldman quit today and wrote a NYT oped revealing all. As a former employee and client I have a few things to add.

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Is the U.S. Government the Mob with a Better Army?

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Both organizations are in the business of killing people through drugs, alcohol, tabacco, and gambling.

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Is it Okay to be a Feminist Gold Digger?

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When it comes to mating practices at the upper end of the socio-economic spectrum we really haven’t progressed much beyond Downton Abbey.

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