Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Joe Schmidt interview: The future remains a blank page
- International
- November 22, 2019, 23:00
As he launches his new memoir, Joe Schmidt tells Keith Duggan he’ll go back to work at some stage. He’s just not sure what at. It was a humdrum(...)

Marketing and the science of ‘knowing what economists are wrong about’
- Innovation
- June 6, 2019, 06:25
It would be a mistake to take Rory Sutherland at face value. Walking through the lobby of a self-consciously posh London hotel, the British advertisin(...)

Political populism is a condition to be managed, not cured
- UK
- March 29, 2016, 14:29
We are living through a mass rejection of elites. We know this because everybody says so. And magically, the reasons for popular rage always cohere wi(...)

Is your company a unicorn or a cockroach?
- Business
- February 1, 2016, 08:00
Nobody liked those snobby, glorified ponies anyway. Now the tech startup narrative is dominated by all-American traits such as staying power, elbow gr(...)

Yanis Varoufakis to open upcoming Kilkenomics festival
- Politics
- September 24, 2015, 15:22
Former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis will open the upcoming Kilkenomics festival, economist amd journalist David McWilliams has announced. T(...)

Unthinkable: Is scepticism a sustainable philosophy?
- Culture
- December 6, 2013, 01:00
In the Middle Ages, prominent sceptics were burned at the stake. Today they’re invited to be panellists on Mock the Week. Yes, scepticism – the idea t(...)