Magazine - Life & Arts
Requiem for a gag
History of the World, Part II proves that some things are really not worth the wait after all. The Monty Python-esque History of the World, Part I…
March 21, 2023
Magazine - Obituary
Chaim Topol, 1935-2023
Sholem Aleichem’s Tevye stories revolutionized Yiddish literature in the late-19th century. Tevye the Dairyman, as the collection of these innovative stories would be titled, helped pave the…
Economy
Bank failures add to Biden’s game of economic whack-a-mole
President Joe Biden rose early March 13 to address the Silicon Valley Bank collapse, impressing his former press secretary. “It is important to note President Biden does…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Specialist Grundle and the magic rock
Late last year I told you about Specialist Grundle, with whom I served in the war in Afghanistan. You probably tried to block out the memory of…
Business
Bitcoin pops and continues 2023 gains as banking sector struggles with SVB failure
Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies had the opposite reaction to the news of Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse than traditional stocks: They actually rose. The pop continued bitcoin’s generally…
Economy
Journalists jump the gun on praising Biden’s bank bailout
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Magazine - Life & Arts
The reviews are in
A few weeks ago, in Hanover, Germany, dance critic Wiebke Huber found herself face to face with an angry choreographer. It seems that Huber had just that…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Bill Nighy’s triumph
Living, the new film from South African director Oliver Hermanus, works a strange and leisurely magic. A seeming examination of bureaucratic inertia in 1950s London, it blossoms…
Magazine - Life & Arts
‘The only liquor so good they named a color after it’
You have to give the people involved with making and selling Chartreuse their props. The consumers of that peculiar, vegetal French liqueur have been wigging out at…
Business
Consulting ourselves to death
During the final years of the Obama administration, I was teaching at a large private university where the nascent “great awokening” had made itself manifest in a…