Joe Nocera
Columnist and Podcaster at The Free Press
Latest podcast: American Dreamer: Who Was Jay Gatsby (Audible) Latest book: The Big Fail. Latest writing gig: The Free Press. And still time to tweet!
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1 week ago |
thefp.com | Joe Nocera
When a 40-year-old economics professor at Harvard University named Dani Rodrik was preparing to publish his first book in 1997, he sent the manuscript to a fellow economist to ask for an endorsement. The title of Rodrik’s book was Has Globalization Gone Too Far?, and it argued that without government policies to mitigate the downside of free trade, the result would be deep and corrosive social divisions. The economist he approached—Rodrik won’t name him except to say he is “well-known”—declined.
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1 week ago |
open.substack.com | Joe Nocera
Discover more fromThe Free PressA new media company built on the ideals that were once the bedrock of American journalism. The Intellectual Godfathers of ProtectionismOnce shunned, globalization’s doubters turned out to be right about its destructive economic and social consequences. What do they think of what Trump is doing?
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2 weeks ago |
thefp.com | Joe Nocera |Poppy Damon
Did New Jersey Fry the Wrong Man? Maybe, Says New DNA Lawsuit. Eighty-nine years ago, Bruno Hauptmann was executed for kidnapping Charles Lindbergh’s baby. Could a licked stamp prove his innocence?
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1 month ago |
thefp.com | Joe Nocera |Will Rahn
Opening Day is here, ushering in another season of America’s so-called national pastime. Across the country, fans will don their jerseys, munch on overpriced hot dogs, and settle in for nine innings of what is—depending on who you ask—either poetry in motion or an excruciating slog. For some, the sport elevates simple things, like throwing, hitting, and catching, to something close to a religion.
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1 month ago |
thefp.com | Joe Nocera
The Luxurious Death Rattle of the Great American MagazineIn the glory days of magazines, journalists flew business class and contributors were sent flowers just for meeting a deadline. It was absurd. Let me tell you about my first lunch with Art Cooper, the late, legendary editor of GQ magazine. It was 1990, and he was trying to lure me away from Esquire, where I had been writing a monthly business column for several years.
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