In this issue we direct our focus to something many had assumed was a relic of a bygone era: A new, pioneering American car company. Indeed, as the continued economic tumult has largely chastened the global entrepreneurial marketplace, American companies like Tesla (“Plug & Play,” page 26) continue to boldly innovate their way into the history ...
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Fukuzawa Yukichi (1835-1901) is best known as the founder of Keio Gijuku (now Keio University). But he is much, much more. He was part of a group of late Tokugawa samurai who helped Japan understand and respond to the changes that arose from monumental internal and external pressures on nearly all of Japan’s institutions. The ...