FOREIGN AFFAIRS MAGAZINE (February 25, 2025): The latest issue features ‘The Center Will Not Hold’ – How an Order Ends…
Foreign Affairs Magazine – March/April 2025 Issue
Category Archives: Reviews
The New York Review Of Books – March 13, 2025
THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS: The latest issue features:
From Comedy to Brutality
With his designs on Greenland and Gaza, Trump has signaled that his first term’s outlandish gestures are the second term’s savage demands.
Caravaggio Lost and Found
As two paintings by Caravaggio return to public view, it is possible to hope that his best-known lost work will reappear after almost half a century.
Caravaggio: The Ecce Homo Unveiled – an exhibition at the Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, May 28, 2024–February 23, 2025
Caravaggio: The Portrait Unveiled – an exhibition at the Gallerie Nazionali di Arte Antica, Palazzo Barberini, Rome, November 23, 2024–February 23, 2025
Caravaggio, la Natività di Palermo: Nascita e scomparsa di un capolavoro [Caravaggio, the Palermo Nativity: Birth and Disappearance of a Masterpiece] by Michele Cuppone
Eden on Fire
The terrible fires in January were another reminder that urban planning in Los Angeles has long failed to protect the city from the natural disasters that repeatedly threaten the region.
The New Yorker Magazine – March 3, 2025 Preview
The Chaos of Trump’s Guantánamo Plan
The confusion surrounding the detention of migrants at the base and their sudden deportation shouldn’t be mistaken for a broader lack of planning. By Jonathan Blitzer
Dredging Up the Ghostly Secrets of Slave Ships
A global network of maritime archeologists is excavating slave shipwrecks—and reconnecting Black communities to the deep. By Julian Lucas
The Population Implosion
Birth rates are crashing around the world. Should we be worried? By Gideon Lewis-Kraus
The New York Times Magazine – Feb 23, 2025
THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE: The 2.23.25 Issue features Jonathan Mahler and Jim Rutenberg on the Murdochs’ succession drama; David Yaffe-Bellany on the cryptocurrency scam that turned a small community on itself; Ismail Muhammad on the comedian Roy Wood Jr….
Six Takeaways About the Murdoch Succession Fight
Here are the main revelations about the battle for control from a secret Nevada trial.
The Comedian Looking for Something All of America Can Laugh At
Roy Wood Jr. performs in small clubs from Georgia to Wyoming, finding humor in the moments that leave us humbled and confused.
The Cryptocurrency Scam That Turned a Small Town Against Itself
How did a successful, financially sophisticated banker gamble his community’s money away?
Reason Magazine ————April 2025 Preview
REASON MAGAZINE (February 21, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Trump’s Dramatic Crossroads’…
Trump’s Dramatic Crossroads
The GOP faces a choice about how to move forward. Stephanie Slade
How To Get Rid of a Tenured Professor
“Officially, it was a voluntary departure. But I sure felt like I’d been pushed out.” Roger Pielke Jr.
The American Right Is Abandoning Mises
The Austrian economist’s principled thought once served as a check on the intellectual right. Brian Doherty
Harper’s Magazine – March 2025 Preview
Harper’s Magazine (February 19, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Round Two – Trump’s Futile War Against The Deep State; Listening for the Future of Music; RAchel Cusk on Marin Amis and The Softer Side of American Conspiracy Theories…
Rage Against the Machine
Trump’s second attempt at dismantling the bureaucracy by Andrew Cockburn
New World Symphonies
Listening for the future of music by Matthew Sherrill
The New Criterion – March 2025 Preview
THE NEW CRITERION MAGAZINE (February 14, 2025): The latest issue features…
The terrible, horrible, no good, very bad “they” by Joshua T. Katz
The Fricks at home by Ian Wardropper
The depletion of culture by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Three Americans in Paris by Michael J. Lewis
The Economist Magazine – February 15, 2025 Preview
THE ECONOMIST MAGAZINE (February 13, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Battle for the Pentagon‘ – Can Donald Trump remake American defense?
Will Donald Trump and Elon Musk wreck or reform the Pentagon?
America’s security depends upon their success
After DeepSeek, America and the EU are getting AI wrong
Europe has a chance to catch up, whereas America should ease up
Countering China’s diplomatic coup
China has turned much of the global south against Taiwan. That could be laying the ground for forced unification
Can Friedrich Merz save Germany—and Europe?
He is on track to win the election, but to fix Europe he will have to fix his country first
The Guardian Weekly – February 14, 2025 Preview
THE GUARDIAN WEEKLY (February 13, 2025): The latest issue features The Orbánisation of America…
We’re just over three weeks into the second Donald Trump administration, and the pace of events both inside and outside the US has been dizzying and unprecedented.
Many of us have been alarmed by Trump’s shocking pronouncements on the Israel-Gaza war, trade tariffs and territorial claims on Greenland and Panama. But inside America, an equally startling transformation has been taking place.
Aided by the tech billionaire Elon Musk, Trump has moved swiftly to fire critics, reward allies, punish media, gut the federal government and exploit presidential immunity. Yet much of the blueprint comes not from Trump’s own policy team, but from a power-consolidation playbook established over the past decade by the Hungarian authoritarian leader Viktor Orbán.
Nature Magazine – February 13, 2025
NATURE MAGAZINE (February 12, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Cosmic Catcher; – Deep sea telescope detects neutrino with highest energy ever recorded.
How to make the perfect egg: give it lukewarm baths
Process turns out eggs with delectable texture and high nutritional value.
How COVID vaccination keeps a ‘breakthrough’ infection in check
The vaccines’ effect on inflammation-promoting cells might help to explain why the jabs protect against severe disease.
Record-setting trove of buried beads speaks to power of ancient women
A Copper Age burial in Spain holds the largest collection of beads ever found ― enough to require a tonne of shellfish as raw material.
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