Christine Rosen

Interview - Adam Meyerson

Posted on 07/28/10

Adam Meyerson is the president of the Philanthropy Roundtable, a national association of more than 500 individual donors, corporate giving representatives, foundation staff and trustees, and trust and estate officers. Before coming to the Roundtable, Meyerson was vice president for educational affairs at the Heritage Foundation, where he worked on civil society projects and edited Policy Review. Meyerson has also been an editorial writer for the Wall Street Journal, as well as editor of the Journal’s “Manager’s Journal” and “Asia” columns. He is a graduate of Yale University and Harvard Business School. We spoke with Mr. Meyerson in Washington, D.C., in March.

Awe and the Machine

Posted on 06/14/10

By the twentieth century, new machines ceased to fill us with wonder.

Virtually Virtuous

Posted on 05/31/10

Are we more or less likely to lie to someone if we are communicating via email or text message than if we are speaking face-to-face? One researcher has found that using the computer can actually encourage people to lie.

The Death of Embarrassment

Posted on 04/26/10

In our nonjudgmental, individualistic culture, we see public displays of just about everything. There are sound arguments for bringing back embarrassment.

Christine Rosen on the Plague of the Plagiarists

Posted on 03/15/10

Recent years have also witnessed an increase in what might be called plagiarism-by-design: authors who liberally lift passages from others' work without attribution but justify the theft by calling it a "pastiche."