Not playing the game is a game of its own.
Vikram Bath
Vikram Bath is the pseudonym of a former business school professor living in the United States with his wife, daughter, and dog. (Dog pictured.) His current interests include amateur philosophy of science, business, and economics. Tweet at him at @vikrambath1.
Vikram suggests that politicians be held accountable for what their administrations do. Expect no one to agree...
It's not racist when white people do it.
Ta-Nehisi Coates slips in his defense.
Thanksgiving is the morally problematic, consumerist holiday, not Black Friday.
The job of the economy is to get the stuff we want, not to keep people employed.
Vikram offers another way to look at Jonathan Martin's role in the Richie Incognito scandal.
No one would allocate votes by region if they were designing a democracy from scratch using available...
Despite the mundane consequence, there is a story here.
Vikram suggests a moral code that is simple if not flexible.
Writing as women in left-leaning news outlets doesn't make your reporting immune from the charge.
The police never seemed to have any issues with the Tea Party. Why?
An intellectual acknowledgment of poverty is not the same thing as believing in poverty and acting accordingly.
Vikram's ideology has a soporific name and fields no viable candidates. Click to find out more!
Science is not just a body of knowledge, but it is taught that way, leaving students with...
Have you ever looked at an expansive menu and not known what to pick? Me too! But...
We ought to be insufferable prudes when it comes to political sex scandals.
A poor choice of words has allowed a useful concept to become an epithet.
Amazon.com is running a long con that will someday make Walmart seem like the friendly neighborhood merchant.
Vikram examines the usefulness of grading employees on a rigid curve as practiced by General Electric and...