The Electric Typewriter
Great articles and essays by the world's best journalists and writers.by Michael Lewis
Hanging around Barack Obama for six months, in the White House, aboard Air Force One, and on the basketball court, Michael Lewis learns about the reality of presidential life.
by Michael Lewis
McCain wanted to change the way politicians paid for their campaigns. Private money, he said, was corrupting public life.
by Michael Lewis
In the late 80s, Michael Lewis traveled to Japan for an article that would appear in a 1989 issue of the Manhattan, Inc. magazine. His piece asked what the economic fallout would be if a 7.9-magnitude earthquake struck Tokyo. Here, in full text, is the original piece.
by Michael Lewis
Every other high-school football player in America was dying for Lemming to invite him to play in the U.S. Army All-American Bowl. Michael Oher had left his invitation on the table…
by Michael Lewis
Michael Burry always saw the world differently — due, he believed, to the childhood loss of one eye. So when the 32-year-old investor spotted the huge bubble in the subprime-mortgage bond market, in 2004, then created a way to bet against it, he wasn’t surprised that no one understood what he was doing.
by Michael Lewis
If you wanted a fast-growing economy, you needed to promote rapid change, and if you promote rapid change, children enjoy one big advantage over adults: they haven’t decided who they are. They haven’t sunk a lot of psychological capital into a particular self.
by Michael Lewis
There are teachers with a rare ability to enter a child’s mind; it’s as if their ability to get there at all gives them the right to stay forever. I once had such a teacher. His name was Billy Fitzgerald, but everybody just called him Coach Fitz.
by Michael Lewis
Two classic articles from the author of Moneyball:
The Trading Desk - For the past four years, working with one of the lowest payrolls in the game, the Oakland A’s have won as many regular-season games as any other team except the Atlanta Braves. They’ve been to the playoffs three years in a row and twice taken the richest team in baseball, the Yankees, to within a few outs of elimination. How on earth did they do it?
The No-Stats All-Star - His greatness is not marked in box scores or at slam-dunk contests, but on the court Shane Battier makes his team better, often much better, and his opponents worse, often much worse.
