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Previews: The Economist Magazine – March 18, 2023
What’s wrong with the banks
Rising interest rates have left banks exposed. Time to fix the system—again
Only ten days ago you might have thought that the banks had been fixed after the nightmare of the financial crisis in 2007-09. Now it is clear that they still have the power to cause a heart-stopping scare. A ferocious run at Silicon Valley Bank on March 9th saw $42bn in deposits flee in a day. svb was just one of three American lenders to collapse in the space of a week.
Will Bibi break Israel?
Binyamin Netanyahu and a constitutional crisis
When Israel’s best and brightest are up in arms it is time to worry
Florida’s governor has blundered over Ukraine
By saying Ukraine is not a vital American interest, Ron DeSantis emboldens Vladimir Putin
The New York Review Of Books – April 6, 2023
Here’s Looking at Yew
English Garden Eccentrics: Three Hundred Years of Extraordinary Groves, Burrowings, Mountains and Menageries
By Todd Longstaffe-Gowan
In the English garden, eccentricity and variety went hand in hand.
What counts as eccentric in the garden, and what counts as a folly? As a child I used to be taken on Sunday walks to the Needle’s Eye in Wentworth, South Yorkshire, a kind of sharp pyramid of stone some forty-five feet tall and pierced by an arched passage.
Descriptions of a Struggle
The Diaries
by Franz Kafka, translated from the German by Ross Benjamin
Kafka’s diaries—made up of false starts, stray thoughts, self-doubts, internal dialogues, dreams, doodles, aphorisms, drafts of stories, character sketches, and scenes from family life—are often very funny.
Profiles: La Seine Musicale Architect Shigeru Ban
The video features La Seine Musicale, a music complex that houses a large multipurpose concert hall and a smaller auditorium. The musical facility is located on the Ile Seguin island near Paris’s western suburbs, occupying a third of French architect Jean Nouvel’s mixed-use masterplan of the island.
Additional footage courtesy of La Seine Musicale, by Arthur Maneint, Hensli Sage and Noesys Prod.
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Cover: The New Statesman Magazine – March 17, 2023
The New Statesman – March 17, 2023:
After Iraq: the great unravelling
The breakdown of the West’s rules-based order began with the invasion of 2003.By Peter Ricketts
The road to war in Iraq
Could a resolute cabinet and a more sceptical press have stopped Tony Blair?
The long shadow of the Iraq War
How do you mourn soldiers killed in an “unjust” war? For years the town of Wootton Bassett showed us…By Jason Cowley
Arts/History: Smithsonian Magazine – April/May 2023
Smithsonian Magazine – April/May 2023 Issue
America’s Waterways: The Past, Present and Future
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Scientists endlessly study lakes and rivers, historians document them, artists paint them, and travelers continue to explore them. In a series of articles, Smithsonian magazine highlights all that draws our eyes to our nation’s fresh and coastal waters.
A Nostalgic Trip Awaits at the World’s Largest Lunchbox Museum
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Take a journey back to your elementary school cafeteria with a visit to the Georgia outpost
The 70 Million-Year-Old History of the Mississippi River
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Dive into the secret past and uncertain future of the body of water that has defined a nation
News: South Korea-Japan Summit In Tokyo, Finland NATO Membership Status
March 16, 2023: As the leaders of South Korea and Japan meet in Tokyo, are we entering a new era in relations? Plus: Ankara hints at ratifying Finland’s Nato bid, a flick through the day’s papers and the latest film news.
Front Page: The New York Times – March 16, 2023
Bank Fears Go Global, Sending a Shudder Through Markets
Stomach-churning volatility in stocks, bonds and other assets on Wednesday reflected renewed worries about the state of the economy and the risks lurking in the financial system.
Federal Reserve and Lawmakers Eye Bank Rules After Collapse
The stunning demise of Silicon Valley Bank has spurred soul-searching about how large and regional banks are overseen.
Credit Suisse to Borrow Up to $54 Billion From Central Bank
The announcement came after investors, fearing that the bank would run out of money, began dumping its stock.
Seaweed Is Having Its Moment in the Sun
Seaweed is being reimagined as a plastic substitute, even as cattle feed. But can it thrive in a warming world?
Research: New Scientist Magazine – March 18, 2023
Cave paintings of mutilated hands could be a Stone Age sign language
Palaeolithic hand stencils with missing fingers could indicate ritual mutilation or frostbite – but new research suggests they might be trying to tell us something
Genome technology is transforming healthcare but what should we allow?
From mice with two fathers to cures for debilitating diseases, the transformative power of genomic technology requires some big decisions on what we want to do with it
See pictures documenting the magnificent Padma river
These images give an insight into the Padma, a major river flowing through Bangladesh that makes up the last leg of the journey of the river Ganges
Literary Preview: The Paris Review – Spring 2023
Camus’s New York Diary, 1946
March 1946. Albert Camus has just spent two weeks at sea on the SS Oregon, a cargo ship transporting passengers from Le Havre to New York City. He’s made several friends during this transatlantic passage.
The Blk Mind Is a Continuous Mind
In his poem “After Avery R. Young,” the Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Jericho Brown writes, “The blk mind / Is a continuous mind.” These lines emerge for me as a guiding principle—as a mantra, even—when I consider the work of Black poetry in America, which insists upon the centrality of Black lives to the human story, and offers the terms of memory, music, conscience, and imagination that serve to counteract the many erasures and distortions riddling the prevailing narrative of Black life in this country.
Season of Grapes
As I was going to enter college that fall my parents felt that I should build myself up at a summer camp of some sort. They sent me down to a place in the Ozarks on a beautiful lake. It was called a camp but it was not just for boys. It was for both sexes and all ages. It was a rustic, comfortable place. But I was disappointed to find that most of the young people went to another camp several miles down the lake toward the dam. I spent a great deal of time by myself that summer, which is hardly good for a boy of seventeen.
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