Amit Vaidya
A Celebnomics reading of the most valuable neutrality in American culture. Dolly Parton died on August 25, 2026, at eighty, in Nashville, of cancer. The tributes arrived within the hour, and most...
Amit Vaidya
Tom Cruise never sang a note. Yet for forty years, his films minted the hits. Hollywood's original playback hero. Some songs stay with us without our ever realizing they have, and it tends to happen...
Amit Vaidya
20 Years of Me and the Word This month it's twenty years since I heard the word. August 2006. There's no way to mark an anniversary like that without it sounding like something, and I've noticed the...
Amit Vaidya
Me, Madonna and the kids who finally went outside Earlier this year a judge in India compared the country's unemployed young people to cockroaches. Somebody made a parody account out of the insult,...
Amit Vaidya
Why I watched the World Cup on Telemundo even though I don't speak Spanish. Seven services, seven islands, and no ferry running between them. I don't speak Spanish. I understand maybe a third of...
Amit Vaidya
How FIFA Made My Summer Work I've spent this tournament writing as an economist. The credibility problem, the halftime spectacle built for television, and the officiating calls that kept breaking one...