I am amazed by Abu Dhabi and Dubai. I know about these two because a relative of mine and her family live in one of them. These are modern cities with every fully developed aspect of commerce and technology. How is this possible, when the leaders are...
America created the celebrity sometime around the first World War. There was Edison, Ford, Lindbergh, Einstein and Rockefeller, Carnegie, Chaplin and many more. Just from looking at that list you can see that some were treated as positive and some as...
One of the hippy successes was the Whole Earth Catalog. It was a masterpiece of a new form of encyclopedia and was the first version of the future Google. I’ve written about many of the hippy successes and of the great social changes that hippies i...
Harold Geneen, Coco Chanel, Peter Sellers, Tennessee Williams, Oscar Wilde, and Cole Porter lived in hotels for many years of their lives. Harold Geneen, the CEO of International Telephone and Telegraph in the 1960s and 70s lived in many hotels and k...
My biggest and most famous lawsuit was about employment discrimination against women and minorities; it was an immediate societal success. I have since figured out why it succeeded. The case was brought in 1971 by Bob Gnaida of the law firm Public Ad...
I’ve spent time around the world with influential people. One thing is clear and very important: They get their news from the New York Times. Journalists, around the world, also get their news from the N.Y. Times. The two things in the headline to...
The civil rights movement failed. That is why the wokies say America is racist. I was on both sides in 1964. On the one hand, I was made president of the San Francisco organization that was created to save Lowell High School, the merit-based high sch...