All That I Have Met

" History is happening to people who have become very complacent about history being a thing that happens to other people." That's Sam Kiley, near the end of our conversation. And the line I keep coming back to. Sam has covered every major conflict of the past thirty years — from Somalia, Rwanda and Iraq, to Afghanistan, Ukraine and — now — the widening war in the Middle East. He is...

In Conversation with Aniket Shah. Most people who work in finance don't question capitalism. And most people who question capitalism don't work in finance. Aniket Shah does both — which turns out to be a very useful position to occupy. For more than a decade, he’s been making an argument most of his industry considers fringe: that markets don't drive economies, governments do; and t...

In Conversation with Michael Power. America is not behind on AI. It’s fighting the wrong war entirely. Michael Power spent more than thirty years as a global strategist at Ninety-One (formerly Investec Asset Management), advising investors and governments on the shifting architecture of capital — his worldview shaped by questioning the assumptions most people take for granted, including the ones b...