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Why the Court Hit the Brakes on School Desegregation
This is structural racism: the system is not self-correcting. Government has to intervene to break the cycle, and that is something that…
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Newspaper headlines: 'Balancing the books on backs of poor' and 'tax rise fears'
There is little comfort for Rachel Reeves on the front pages, after a Spring Statement which the Daily Mail calls "humiliating" and the…
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Who Gets to Define Divorce
Last summer, a poll by the Survey Center on American Life produced a striking statistic. Breaking down the electorate by marital status…
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Bong Joon Ho’s Early Film School Materials, Comic Books and Rare Storyboards: Props From the Academy’s ‘Director’s Inspiration’ Exhibit
In the years since Bong Joon Ho made Oscar history with “Parasite”s best picture victory in 2020, the Korean director’s fanbase continued…
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Saul Steinberg’s Masterful Language of Lines
Saul Steinberg, the Romanian American artist and longtime New Yorker contributor, is as celebrated for his elegant line as he is for his…
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9 Books Inspired By the Spring 2025 Couture Shows in Paris — With Honorable Mentions From Men’s Fashion Week
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Bill Gates’ Tells His Story for First Time in New Memoir, ‘Source Code: My Beginnings’
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An Arachnophobe Pays Homage to the Spider
Back in my footloose twenties, I lived for a year in Costa Rica, where I worked at a school in the central highlands and worked even…
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Briefly Noted Book Reviews
Land Power, by Michael Albertus (Basic). In the past few centuries, land has changed hands on major scales: from nobles to commoners…
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The Poet Shane McCrae Goes Back to Hell
Along Interstate 71, in a flat stretch of Ohio, an otherwise modest billboard proclaims that “hell is real.” The type, set against a black…
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Huationg, Ley Choon shares take off as robust order books revive construction stocks
Shares of some construction companies surged last week on various announcements and a projected bright outlook. Hock Lian Seng was up 12.9…
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Yukio Mishima’s Death Cult
I once owned a photograph of Yukio Mishima squatting in the snow, dressed in nothing but a skimpy white loincloth, brandishing a long…
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He Was a Genius for the Ages. Can We Give Him a Break?
Gottfried Leibniz was not the first philosopher to think that we live in the best of all possible worlds. He may have been the unluckiest,…
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What Is "Stuff Your Kindle" Day? Book lovers can stock up during event
What's New Thursday and Friday mark the "Stuff Your Kindle" Days during which e-book readers can stock up on hundreds of books for…
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Does Morality Do Us Any Good?
Sauer, who cautions that his chronological arrangements “shouldn’t be taken too literally,” terms the results of his multidisciplinary…
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Is There Any Escape from the Spotify Syndrome?
Like countless other people around the globe, I stream music, and like more than six hundred million of them I mainly use Spotify.…
Culture
Sure, “Paradise Lost” Is Radical, but Did You Know It Was Sexy?
A new study charts John Milton’s influence on revolutionary thinkers but misses the sheer seductiveness of his masterwork. Source link
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Paul Valéry Would Prefer Not To
One way of being a modernist writer is to pay attention to the most saliently modern objects and experiences. So it is that Proust…
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At 56, she just published her first book—it might become a Hallmark movie
"What do you want to be when you grow up?" When faced with this question, some children know exactly what they're going to say. They…
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The Surprisingly Sunny Origins of the Frankfurt School
One of the more reliable chemical reactions in European culture occurs when particles of German mental matter enter Italy. Suddenly,…
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The Art Dealer Who Wanted to Be Art
If you remember anything about this painting, may it be that the dog’s name is Noble. The black poodle in the bottom left greets us as a…
Culture
The Frenemies Who Fought to Bring Birth Control to the U.S.
Judging by how commonly birth control is practiced in the United States, it ought to rank among the least controversial of subjects. In…
Business
SoftBank books 1.18 trillion yen quarterly gain as Vision Fund finds its feet again
JAPAN’S SoftBank Group swung to a 1.18 trillion yen (S$8.7 billion) net profit in the three months to September, as the tech giant…
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A Début Novel Captures the Start of India’s Modi Era
E pluribus unum might be the proper political aspiration for a large and multifarious country, but when it comes to the novel people tend…