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The New York Times Magazine – March 16, 2025
THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE (March 15, 2025): The 3.16.25 Issue features Extreme Voyages Issue, Evgenia Abrugaeva on the Ice Age bone hunters of Siberia; J Wortham on a 10-day crash course for surviving the Apocalypse; Doug Bock Clark on adventure racing through a hurricane; Sam Anderson on following the path of The Old Leatherman; Sara Benincasa on a trip to the grocery store as an agoraphobe; and more.
Diving With Siberian Bone Hunters
A search for the fossils of long-extinct creatures, hidden in Russia’s frigid waters.
How Generative A.I. Complements the MAGA Style
Online Trump supporters have embraced a unique form of irony that is hard to parse — and easy to deploy with new technologies. By Dan Brooks
The Old Idea That Could Give New Life to Progressive Politics
During the first Trump era, the resistance engaged in soaring rhetoric about unity — then fell apart. Will this time be different?By Parul Sehgal
Reviews: ‘The Week In Art’
THE WEEK IN ART (March 14, 2025): After a challenging year in which international galleries, auction houses and museums have been forced to scale back their operations and make redundancies on an alarming scale, a slower, more considered approach to business seems to be emerging.
So are we into an era of longer, more in-depth exhibitions and bespoke events concerned more with authentic connection than flashy spectacle? Ben Luke talks to Anny Shaw, a contributing editor at The Art Newspaper. In the Netherlands, just as in the US, cuts by far-right politicians to international development seem likely to have a huge impact on arts projects. As Tefaf, the major international art fair opens in the Dutch city of Maastricht, we talk to Senay Boztas, our correspondent based in Amsterdam, about fears of a funding crisis. And this episode’s Work of the Week is one of the greatest paintings ever made: The Hunters in the Snow (1565) by Pieter Bruegel the Elder. It is part of an exhibition called Arcimboldo – Bassano – Bruegel: Nature’s Time, which opened this week at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. The museum’s director, Jonathan Fine, tells us more.
Arcimboldo–Bassano–Bruegel: Nature’s Time, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, until 29 June
Commentary Magazine – April 2025 Preview
COMMENTARY MAGAZINE (March 14, 2025): The latest issue features ‘In Praise Of Big Pharma’; How American Aid has subsidized Terror and The Coalition of the Sentimental & Homicidal for Palestine…
In Praise of Big Pharma
“If we allow the hatred of the industry to continue, we are going to lose investment and people are going to die.” by Tevi Troy
The Putin Trap
Washington Commentary by Matthew Continetti
The Evil of Rationalism
Social Commentary by Christine Rosen
Science Magazine – March 14, 2025 Research Preview
Studies seek signs of consciousness before birth
Fetal and infant brains offer clues to when human experience begins
In Ukraine, dam’s destruction sets off a ‘toxic time bomb’
Floods threaten to spread sediments laden with toxicants
Oceans’ trenches are home to ‘incredible’ diversity
In trio of studies, scientists explore life in the mysterious hadal zone
NIH kills existing grants on transgender issues
Some termination letters cite “biological realities” to dismiss usefulness of such research
Face to face with the first known Western European
At least 1.1 million years old, a fossil face suggests more than one type of early human inhabited Europe
The Economist Magazine – March 15, 2025 Preview
THE ECONOMIST MAGAZINE (March 13, 2025): The latest issue features America’s new foreign policy…
America’s bullied allies need to toughen up
To avoid being crushed, they need a better plan than flattery and concessions
The new economics of immigration
A fresh critique of migration is gaining ground. Liberals must take it seriously
Trump’s erratic policy is harming the reputation of American assets
Like the stockmarket, the dollar is also suffering from falling confidence and rising confusion
The Guardian Weekly – March 14, 2025 Preview
With unaccustomed speed, Paris, Berlin and London, along with the European Commission, are stepping up with a new “whatever it takes” mentality to create a framework for their own defence. Our coverage, led by Toby Helm and with contributions from our correspondents in Kyiv, Brussels and Berlin, examines how fiscal shibboleths are being shed to allow for increased military spending, and from Berlin a growing enthusiasm for Germany’s chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz to consider sheltering under France’s independent nuclear umbrella.
Spotlight | ‘Here you will die’
Mark Townsend reports from Sudan on how the retreat of rebel RSF forces has led to the discovery of a torture centre, evidence of what could be one of the worst atrocities of the civil war
Technology | Roboshop
Can an AI agent prove itself smart enough to help Victoria Turk with her shopping? And, if it can order groceries and a takeaway, what else might it soon be able to do?
Feature | All the young Reform dudes
What is it about Nigel Farage’s Reform party that is attracting young men fed up with establishment politics? Gaby Hinsliff finds out
Opinion | The Sicilian ways of Donald Trump
The US president’s way of doing business is uncomfortably close to the fictional Corleone method, but without the mafia’s sense of honour, says Jonathan Freedland
Culture | Arthouse animation moves on up
Hot on the Academy Awards’ success of Flow, Xan Brooks looks at how independent animators are taking on the big-budget Hollywood studios and finding audiences are falling back in love with stop-go techniques
Modern Age Journal – Winter/Spring 2025
MODERN AGE – A CONSERVATIVE REVIEW (March 12, 2025): The latest issue features ‘The Art of Civilization’; No Canon, No West; Kitsch- An Essay in Definition; Flannery O’Connor’s Century…
Canons Win Culture Wars
Civilization is a product of canons. The Bible is a canon, and while the Iliad and Odyssey were not quite sacred scripture to the ancient Greeks, the Homeric epics went a long way toward establishing what it meant for a man or a city to be part of the Greek world. That world was almost a synonym for civilization itself. What was not Greek was barbarian.
Noam Chomsky’s War on War
Noam Chomsky has attained fame in two different areas. He is a world-renowned authority in linguistics and also a major public intellectual. But while in the former area his achievements are universally recognized, even by those who disagree with him, this is not so for his work as a public intellectual, where he is idolized by some, respected by others, tolerated by yet others, and execrated by more than a few.
Flannery at 100—and Forever
O’Connor’s work, fiction and not, is Catholic, gothic, Southern, and timeless.
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Nature Magazine – March 13, 2025 Research Preview
NATURE MAGAZINE (March 12, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Good Or Bad?’ – Simple two-point rating system curbs racial bias in the gig economy.
Who’s likely to wake up from a coma? Brainwaves provide a clue
The presence of a pattern called a sleep spindle helps to predict which people will recover from an unresponsive state.
A super-gel stays supple from −115 ºC to 143 ºC
A network of two polymers plus sulfuric acid allows a hydrogel to keep its elasticity and softness at extreme temperatures.
Ancient puppets that smile or scowl hint at shared rituals
Clay figurines found on top of the remnants of a pyramid in what is now El Salvador might have been used in public ceremonies.
The surprising culprit for the loss of huge swathes of tropical forest
Analysis of satellite imagery of the Brazilian Amazon, the Congo Basin and New Guinea helps to show that ‘secondary’ roads take an outsized toll.
Times Literary Supplement – March 14, 2025 Preview
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT (March 12, 2025): The latest issue features ‘The Only Way Is Down’ – On hopeful pessimism; The death of a poet in war; On democracy; Did museums purchase or plunder and Crippen’s crimes…
Cold comfort farm
Hope, despair and retreat in an unquiet age By Kieran Setiya
Taking up the cross
The crusades in the English literary imagination By David Abulafia
Not just a man’s war
The role of women in crusading history
Under the patriarchy
Sixty years of turmoil in Egypt
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