Times Literary Supplement (April 24, 2024): The latest issue features ‘The Mormon Conquest’ – Seth Perry on a people of the book; Is ‘green growth’ a mirage; Virginia Woolf’s rural retreat; China’s Shakespeare…
@nplusonemag (April 23, 2024): The latest issue features ‘Passage’ – Fast fashion nation. Six months of genocide in Gaza. Human_Fallback_2: 2 Human 2 Fallback. Martin Amis, re-reassessed. Border stories by Nicholas Hamburger and Paul Soto.
A genocide in images
OCTOBER 7 MARKED the beginning of a new economy of war imagery. At first there was a video of a bulldozer plowing through the border fence between Israel and Gaza—an astonishing image, captured in a familiar way. Then things turned horribly surreal. The events of that day were beamed to the world in real time via body-cam, dashcam, cell phone, drone. A Hamas fighter wearing a GoPro stalked the highway with his automatic rifle jutting up from the bottom of the frame, first-person-shooter style. A dashboard camera showed a car zooming forward as a bullet pierced its windshield and the car began to drift, veering left, until it crashed into the rear end of a parked Toyota; you knew exactly when the person behind the wheel could no longer drive, was probably dead.
And What America Should Learn From It
By now, Chinese President Xi Jinping’s ambition to remake the world is undeniable. He wants to dissolve Washington’s network of alliances and purge what he dismisses as “Western” values from international bodies. He wants to knock the U.S. dollar off its pedestal and eliminate Washington’s chokehold over critical technology. In his new multipolar order, global institutions and norms will be underpinned by Chinese notions of common security and economic development, Chinese values of state-determined political rights, and Chinese technology. China will no longer have to fight for leadership. Its centrality will be guaranteed.
America’s Competition With China Must Be Won, Not Managed
The New Statesman – April 21, 2024:
They bet that direct attacks would not lead to a disastrous escalation. The Middle East is now on the…By Jeremy Bowen
The drone and missile strike conveyed as much weakness as it did strength.By Lawrence Freedman
Why was the prescription of puberty blockers to distressed children allowed to continue for so long?By Hannah Barnes
THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW (April 20, 2024): The latest issue features….
In “The Anxious Generation,” Jonathan Haidt says we’re failing children — and takes a firm stand against tech.
By Tracy Dennis-Tiwary
THE ANXIOUS GENERATION: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness, by Jonathan Haidt
Inside the book conservation lab at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
By Molly Young
Not every workplace features a guillotine. At a book conservation lab tucked beneath the first floor of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the office guillotine might as well be a water cooler or a file cabinet for all that it fazes the staff. “We have a lot of violent equipment,” said Mindell Dubansky, who heads the Sherman Fairchild Center for Book Conservation.
In “Muse of Fire,” Michael Korda depicts the lives and passions of the soldier poets whose verse provided a view into the carnage of World War I.
BARRON’S MAGAZINE – APRIL 22, 2024 ISSUE:
Nvidia’s AI dominance won’t last forever. Big Tech and the rest of Silicon Valley are racing to catch up.
The 11.4% median increase for 100 top CEOs was well ahead of the 4.3% gain for the average worker.
Switching to a Roth IRA from a traditional IRA could save you money in retirement. Here’s what to know.
Its merger with Japan’s Nippon is in doubt, but shares still look attractive.
After a tough start to the year, bonds should start to perk up. Where to invest for income now.
THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE (April 19, 2024):The Modern Love issue features…
You know so much more about yourself and your desires when you’re older that dating apps — even with all their frustrations — can bring unanticipated pleasure.
Experts and couples are challenging the conventional wisdom that sex is essential to relationships.
Lessons from Pablo Neruda’s mind-bending verse.
By NICHOLAS CASEY
NASA’s JWST telescope traces burst to a supernova but finds a puzzling lack of heavy elements
Exposing monitor lizards to thousands of young cane toads helped them survive once the adult toads invaded
Suit seeks to overturn state law targeting graduate and postdocs from China and other “countries of concern”
Meteorites suggest tumult occurred around the time of the Moon’s formation
They are not doomed to be poor and anxious
The Congress party is set for a drubbing in the world’s biggest election
Instead it should try a novel response to Iran’s missile attack: restraint
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