Alastair Cheng is an editor and (recovering) magazine person, who now consults for business and nonprofit clients. He worked for years at the Literary Review of Canada — which covers culture and public affairs, mainly through essays and nonfiction book reviews — starting as an editorial assistant and eventually becoming co-publisher. Alastair also spent time as a political staffer on Parliament Hill and studied philosophy and history at the University of Toronto.
Thanks to data royalties and a solid bioreactor gig, Alyx can live well and set something aside for the next flu or market shock.
Rising tensions feed a democratic mandate for big change. Government fosters a conscientious capitalism that distributes innovation’s benefits more broadly.