In today’s newsletter, the ritualistic sights and scenes at Pope Francis’s funeral. Plus: I watched the funeral for Pope ...

Now everything must change. That kind of knowledge production has, in effect, been automated. As a result, the “scientistic” ...

In Dea Kulumbegashvili’s film, Ia Sukhitashvili plays a Georgian obstetrician who views a woman’s right to choose as an ...

Jeff Bark’s elaborately composed scenes channel sundered American fantasies. They also function as personal folklore.

From the daily newsletter: what happens when we can optimize pregnancy. Plus: Susan B. Glasser on Trump’s confused desires.

How U.S. military lawyers see Israel’s invasion of Gaza—and the public’s reaction to it—as a dress rehearsal for a potential ...

Paul Clement complained that Big Law was becoming “increasingly woke.” Now he’s defending one firm’s right to do just that.

Also: reviews of Broadway’s “Smash” and “John Proctor Is the Villain”; New York’s financial crisis of 1975 in “Drop Dead City ...

This documentary examines the economic changes and managerial missteps that brought the city to the brink of bankruptcy in ...

The architect behind London’s Shard, New York’s Whitney Museum, and Paris’s Centre Pompidou discusses the beauty of ...

As Tesla’s profits drop, a group called Everyone Hates Elon is going viral for plastering London with fake advertisements for ...

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