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3 weeks ago | 
thebaffler.com | Matthew Goodman |Rafia Zakaria |Pooja Bhatia
Forty-Five has become 47, and Donald Trump is now the first president to serve two nonconsecutive terms since Grover Cleveland. With protective tariffs anathema to Uncle Jumbo, as Cleveland was known to family and friends, the two wouldn’t have agreed on all counts, but our twenty-second and twenty-fourth president was also a downsizer cartoonishly obsessed with small government.
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Jan 6, 2025 | 
thebaffler.com | Matthew Goodman |Tanvi Misra
On the morning of November 5, the day of the 2024 presidential election, the algorithm delivered me the promise of escape. Titled “Here’s How to Buy Citizenship in Another Country,” the article lamented the global character of climate change and the fact that “political turmoil is upending longstanding democracies.” Despite the polycrisis’s indifference to borders, the author suggested I might be happier elsewhere.
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Oct 28, 2024 | 
thebaffler.com | Matthew Goodman |Hai-Dang Phan |Adrian Van Young
Choose your precipice. The grist that makes modern life will run out at some point—when will we tap the last barrel of crude, blow through the remaining stocks of helium, deplete those rare metals only getting rarer? More pressing than bismuth and boron as I write this in September is who will win the election; even more pressing than that is a ceasefire in Gaza, though one worries that the war will only widen.
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Sep 3, 2024 | 
thebaffler.com | Matthew Goodman
“In the United States, political change is evolutionary rather than revolutionary,” wrote Kevin Phillips, the Republican political analyst who helped devise the racial grievance-driven Southern Strategy, in 1969’s The Emerging Republican Majority.
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Aug 27, 2024 | 
inc-aus.com | Matthew Goodman
Kim Scott’s ‘Radical Candor’ approach can help you be direct without rupturing the relationship. I have always struggled to give feedback. In my previous roles as a supervisor, I would sugarcoat my critiques or not say them at all. I would tend to focus only on the positives and “be nice” out of fear of hurting someone else’s feelings or rupturing the relationship. Perhaps you can relate to this or know someone else who embodies a similar approach.
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Aug 13, 2024 | 
matthewgoodmanphd.medium.com | Matthew Goodman
With all of the social, political, economic, and ecological crises we currently face, many people are wondering how they can make a positive impact on their surroundings. What can I do to make a difference in this messed up world? Conventional logic points to action: we must exert a force upon the world in order for it to change. “DO SOMETHING! IF YOU DON’T ACT, NOTHING WILL CHANGE!” is the mantra deeply entrenched in our belief system.
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Jul 19, 2024 | 
inc-aus.com | Matthew Goodman
inc-article-body-registration-wall These simple strategies can shift team dynamics, personal wellness, and overall results. The importance of being in the present moment or practicing mindfulness has permeated popular culture over the last two decades. To many, mindfulness may seem antithetical to business.
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Jul 8, 2024 | 
matthewgoodmanphd.medium.com | Matthew Goodman
You are likely familiar with the adage that "addicts" must hit rock bottom in order to make sustainable change - to become sober. I believe the world is undergoing a similar experience. I put "addicts" in quotes because most people, including myself, have been conditioned to equate the term with someone addicted to substances. While this is one example, the truth is that we are all addicts in some capacity.
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Jul 7, 2024 | 
inc-aus.com | Matthew Goodman
Controlling our own anxiety about fixing a problem often prevents others from contributing and growing. Empowering others is an easy principle to stand behind. As a leader, you want your team to feel motivated and engaged in their work. Yet there is something insidious that gets in the way of this that is frequently overlooked: the need to control your discomfort. As human beings, we naturally want to control the world around us to make ourselves feel good on the inside.
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Jul 1, 2024 | 
matthewgoodmanphd.medium.com | Matthew Goodman
Biden's debate performance last Thursday. There is not much that needs to be added to that sentence to convey what I mean to say. The spotlight now shines brightly on Biden's cognitive fitness (if it was only slightly dimmed before). The obvious question most people are asking is whether Biden is "cognitively fit" enough to run the country. Like so many other phenomena in politics, and especially in today's highly polarized environment, the judgment being cast on Biden carries a very familiar echo.
