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International Art: Apollo Magazine – January 2025
Category Archives: Magazines
The New Yorker Magazine Dec. 30, 2024 & Jan. 6, 2025
The New Yorker (December 23, 2024): Diana Ejaita’s “Midnight Moments” – The magical blur of New Year’s Eve.
How Much Does Our Language Shape Our Thinking?
English continues to expand into diverse regions around the world. The question is whether humanity will be homogenized as a result. By Manvir Singh
Alice Munro’s Passive Voice
The celebrated writer’s partner sexually abused her daughter Andrea. The abuse transformed Munro’s fiction, but she left it to Andrea to confront the true story. By Rachel Aviv
Is There Any Escape from the Spotify Syndrome?
The history of recorded music is now at our fingertips. But the streamer’s algorithmic skill at giving us what we like may keep us from what we’ll love. By Hua Hsu
The New York Times Magazine – Dec. 22, 2024
THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE (December 21, 2024): The 12,22,24 issue features ‘Escape From Gaza’…
For a Desperate Few, a Hectic Escape From Gaza
The war is nearly impossible to flee — except for a small number of sick and wounded who are offered a dramatic path to safety. By Nicholas Casey
Is Mikhail Baryshnikov the Last of the Highbrow Superstars?
Fifty years since he left the Soviet Union, he insists on using his huge fame to bring attention to difficult, esoteric art. By Jason Diamond
Another New Twitter? Good Luck With That.
Users are now flocking to Bluesky. But every social media platform becomes a wasteland in the end. By J Wortham
Finance Preview: Barron’s Magazine – Dec. 23, 2024
BARRON’S MAGAZINE (December21, 2024): The latest issue features ‘Buy Now, Cry Later’…
She Blew Her Life Savings. How Tech Hooks Shoppers.
The rise of affiliate links, Buy Now buttons, and other technology has made it easier than ever to binge, often with dire consequences.
Sell Costco Stock. It’s No Bargain.
The company is firing on all cylinders, but its valuation has become concerning. Shares now trade for 53 times projected earnings.
Farewell to the Smooth Ride for Stocks. How to Prepare Your Portfolio for a Bumpy 2025.
Trump’s policies are a wild card for markets. Making these portfolio moves could help smooth your ride.
The Super-Rich Invest in Some Wild Things. A 20% Return Is Very Real.
Some wealthy families look elsewhere to invest as private-equity funds become too big. The strategies aren’t for the average investor.
Politics: National Review Magazine – February 2025
NATIONAL REVIEW MAGAZINE (December 20, 2024): The latest issue features ‘William F. Buckley Jr. at 100’…
Why Bill Buckley’s Ideas Still Matter
An enduring fusion by Ramesh Ponnuru
The Elements of Buckley’s Style
Prose makes the man by Andrew Ferguson
Life of the Party
WFB as pop icon by James Rosen
Opinion & Politics: Reason Magazine – February 2025
REASON MAGAZINE (December 20, 2024): The latest issue features ‘Maga Musk’….
The Improbable Rise of MAGA-Musk
Is Elon Musk a reactionary with a defective bullshit meter or the best part of the second Trump administration?
Finding Trillions in Federal Cuts Is Easy. But Will Trump and Musk Follow Through?
DOGE won’t necessarily have to kill any of Republicans’ sacred cows—but they will have to be put on a diet.
‘The Constitution Is Not a Suicide Pact’
How a 1949 Supreme Court dissent gave birth to a meme that subverts free speech and civil liberties
The Pentagon Keeps Losing Equipment and Buying Stuff It Doesn’t Need
How the U.S. military busts its budget on wasteful, careless, and unnecessary ‘self-licking ice cream cones’
Research Preview: Science Magazine – Dec. 20, 2024
Science Magazine (December 18, 2024): The latest issue features ‘Light Emission with a Twist’ – Hot, twisted carbon nanotube yarns emit bright circularly polarlized light…
Can psychedelics improve well-being in autism?
A brace of new studies probes benefits and risks for an understudied group
Thermal radiation with a twist
Carbon nanotube filaments with a twisted geometry emit spinning heat waves at high temperatures
The Economist Magazine – December 21, 2024 Preview
The Economist (December 18, 2024): The Holiday double issue features…
What to make of 2024
A turbulent year has shed fresh light on some important truths
Keep the Caucasus safe from Russia
The protesters and the president need help
Global warming is speeding up. Another reason to think about geoengineering
Reducing sulphur emissions saves lives. But it could also be hastening planetary warming
The Economist’s country of the year for 2024
The winner toppled a tyrant and seems headed for something better
Culture/Politics: Harper’s Magazine – January 2025
Harper’s Magazine (December 18, 2024): The latest issue features ‘Ghost Music’ – Inside Spotify’s Fake-Artist Scheme; Among the Ruins of Lebanon and Cynthia Ozick on the Pleasures of Letter Writing…
The Ghosts in the Machine
Spotify’s plot against musicians by Liz Pelly
The Forever Cure
Is civil commitment rehabilitating sex offenders—or punishing them? by Jordan Michael Smith
Voices from the Dead Letter Office
On the epistolary life by Cynthia Ozick
Politics: The Guardian Weekly – December 20, 2024
This was a year in which billions of people living in more than 80 countries had the right to cast their democratic votes in elections. But with democracy around the world under ever-greater threats – from attacks on freedom of speech, equality of participation and plurality of media to name a few – how did the election process bear up? Jonathan Yerushalmy and Oliver Holmes find reasons for hope amid the pressure.
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The big story | France and the shadow of the Pelicot trial
The mass rape case, in which verdicts and sentencing are expected this week, has horrified the world. But this is not French society’s first attempt to confront a sexually abusive culture, writes Kim Willsher, who has witnessed the harrowing proceedings in Avignon
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Spotlight | How Ukrainian power plant workers keep the country running
As winter closes in, Shaun Walker visits a Soviet-era coal-fired thermal installation to explore how it has held up to Russian attacks
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Opinion | After the fall of Assad, the least Syrians deserve is our optimism
With the tyrannical dynasty gone, it’s important not to impose a negative script on what comes next. Syrians deserve support and hope, argues Nesrine Malik
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The shamelessness of Fifa’s process in awarding the 2034 tournament to Riyadh was a display of contempt for governance, democracy and good sense, writes Barney Ronay
What else we’ve been reading
With France on its fourth prime minister in a year and Germany facing a snap election in February, Paris and Berlin correspondents Jon Henley and Deborah Cole explain why the driving forces of the European Union are in the doldrums. An excellent primer to understand what will be a shaky start to next year for European politics. Isobel Montgomery, deputy editor
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