Martingevans

LATEST ARTICLES ( 129 )

• ICE Cruelty

  Mr. Trump's free fall in his approval ratings surely means that he is desperately searching for some favorable headlines. May I suggest an area where he could... Read more

  Posted on 19 November 2025 SELF EXPRESSION

• Bureau of Labor Statistics Data

  I hope that the Bureau of Labor Statistics will present accurate unemployment statistics in the next few days. I do not want them influenced by Mr. Trump’s... Read more

  Posted on 18 November 2025 SELF EXPRESSION

• Trump, Tariffs, and the Supreme Court

  I hope that the Supreme Court decides quickly in the case of Mr. Trump’s claim to be able to make unilateral decisions on the imposition and removal of tariffs... Read more

  Posted on 17 November 2025 SELF EXPRESSION

• Tit-for-Tat

  I appreciate Mr. Brooks' lamentation of the loss of give and take in our political system at the federal level (David Brooks, The Rot Creeping Into Our Minds.... Read more

  Posted on 24 October 2025 SELF EXPRESSION

• Traditional Marriage

  I must query one phrae in your columnist's piece (Carine Hajjar. A new era at Harvard: Once shunned, conservative students are now welcome to share their... Read more

  Posted on 10 October 2025 SELF EXPRESSION

• Where is the Justice in Trump’s First Hundred Days, and Former Aide Musk’s Too?

  When we look at the outpouring of events in the first hundred days of the administration, it is hard for progressives to see any impacts that even have a modicu... Read more

  Posted on 10 July 2025 SELF EXPRESSION

• Goveernment Downsizing

  When will they ever learn: Downsizing?In the 1990’s there was a major wave of downsizing in North America. Students of organization studied this process in... Read more

  Posted on 07 February 2025 SELF EXPRESSION

• Strategy for Blockig Trump

  It is time for the Democrats to adopt devious tactics in the Senate and the House of Represetatives.There are enough upright Republicans willing to vote secretl... Read more

  Posted on 01 February 2025 SELF EXPRESSION

• Lies and Policies

  After the hurricane hit North Carolina, Mr. Trump lied about FEMA. He claimed that FEMA was unfair in allocating its help. His lies were so destructive that som... Read more

  Posted on 27 January 2025 SELF EXPRESSION

• Trump's Punishment

  I think the appropriate sentence for soon-to-be President Trump is community service (A New York Judge Upholds Trump's Conviction, New York Times, January... Read more

  Posted on 04 January 2025 SELF EXPRESSION

• Dr. Bhattacharya, Covid, Sweden, and the Furure

  The nomination of Dr. Jay Bhattacharya to head up NIH reminds me that there was one country, Sweden, that tried to follow the principles outlined in the Great... Read more

  Posted on 08 December 2024 SELF EXPRESSION

• Tariffs and Exclusions

  I was angered to read that crony capitalism would soon be returning to the United States (Firms Elbowing to Lobby Trump over his Tariffs, New York Times,... Read more

  Posted on 24 November 2024 SELF EXPRESSION

• Republican Mind-Set

  I was just reading Walter Isaacson and Evan Thomas’s The Wise Men, an account of the foreign policy work undertaken by Dean Acheson, Averell Harriman, and... Read more

  Posted on 22 November 2024 SELF EXPRESSION

• One Way to Reduce the Inequality Between Top Management a...

  One way to reduce the inequality between top management and the median paid employee (Chief Executives, the Sky Is the Limit for Pay, New York Times, Sunday... Read more

  Posted on 12 June 2024 SELF EXPRESSION

• Conditions for Successful Downsizing

  Downsizing is only successful in the long run if two conditions are met:that the layoffs are structured according to a well-defined strategy, andtop management... Read more

  Posted on 10 June 2024 SELF EXPRESSION

• Don’t Abandon Your Core Competencies: Boeing and GBH

  Don’t abandon your core competenciesMartin G. Evans[429 words]Back in the 1990's when I was still teaching business school (Rotman, University of Toronto), one... Read more

  Posted on 04 June 2024 SELF EXPRESSION

• DeSantis's Super PAC

  Never Back Down (the DeSantis Super PAC) is breaking every rule in the book (DeSantis Super PAC's Plea: 'We Need 50 Million Bucks," New York Times, September... Read more

  Posted on 02 September 2023 SELF EXPRESSION

• AI and Creativityy

  Martin G. Evans <[email protected]>Fri, Jun 2, 9:57 AMto lettersMr. Rowland Chen (Letters, June 2, 2023) suggests that AI procedures cannot com... Read more

  Posted on 06 June 2023 SELF EXPRESSION

• Downsizing 2022 Style.

  You can find it here: Downsizing.2022 style</p> In case you are blocked by the firewall, here is what I wrote:It is never a good time to get laid-off,... Read more

  Posted on 24 March 2023 SELF EXPRESSION

• Trump and the 60-day Rule

  Justice delayed is justice denied. It is past time for justice to be done for the majority of Americans despite the 60-day "rule" (Unwritten Rule Poses Dilemma... Read more

  Posted on 05 September 2022 SELF EXPRESSION