The New Criterion – The June 2024 issue features:
On combating anti-Semitism & anti-Americanism.
On White Rural Rage by Tom Schaller & Paul Waldman.
On The Gulag Archipelago at fifty.
On the town’s history & architecture.
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A cell-by-cell look at neuropsychiatric diseases
DNA sequences are connected to genes and functions in the developing and adult brain
DNA study implicates medieval warfare and colonial trade
REASON MAGAZINE (May 23, 2024) – The latest issue features ‘It Was A Very Safe City’ – Crime and homelessness in America...
The U.S. confronts a growing homelessness problem. Does Miami have the answer?
Government mismanagement, not sentencing reform or sparse social spending, deserves the blame.
Seasonal businesses can’t get the short-term labor from abroad that they need.
Ending U.S. aid would give Washington less leverage in the Middle East. That’s why it’s worth doing.
Economies must adapt to baby busts instead
As birth rates plunge, many politicians want to pour money into policies that might lead women to have more babies. Donald Trump has vowed to dish out bonuses if he returns to the White House. In France, where the state already spends 3.5-4% of gdp on family policies each year, Emmanuel Macron wants to “demographically rearm” his country. South Korea is contemplating handouts worth a staggering $70,000 for each baby. Yet all these attempts are likely to fail, because they are built on a misapprehension.
Governments’ concern is understandable. Fertility rates are falling nearly everywhere and the rich world faces a severe shortage of babies. At prevailing birth rates, the average woman in a high-income country today will have just 1.6 children over her lifetime. Every rich country except Israel has a fertility rate beneath the replacement level of 2.1, at which a population is stable without immigration. The decline over the past decade has been faster than demographers expected.
The death of the president changes the power dynamic
A new generation of AI chips is on the way
The rainbow nation needs an alternative to decline under the ANC
Rishi Sunak’s election call makes no sense, but is good news
Times Literary Supplement (May 22, 2024): The latest issue features ‘The Other Europe’ – Defining a Continent; An English Country Garden; The church of Peter Ackroyd and Zombie apocalypse…
In search of the new world order in Munich
Naturally, I too will be staying at the Bayerischer Hof.
—Franz Kafka
The Hotel Bayerischer Hof in Munich is an indestructible fortress of Mitteleuropean culture where tour guides like to pause. Richard Wagner repaired to the Hof for tea after his opera performances in Munich; Sigmund Freud fell out with Carl Jung in the Hof over the status of the libido; Kafka stayed at the Hof when he gave his second, and final, public reading to a hostile audience. A decade later, Hitler learned to crack crabs at the Hof under the supervision of a society hostess, and Joseph Goebbels counted on its rooms for a good night’s rest. The Hof weathered the revolutions of 1848; it withstood the revolution of 1918–19, in which the socialist leader Kurt Eisner was assassinated in front of the hotel and Bavaria briefly became a workers’-council republic; it rebuffed the Nazis’ attempts to buy it in the Thirties; and, after it was nearly destroyed by an Allied bombing raid in 1944, it was reconstructed with beaverlike industry. Today its wide façade of three hundred and thirty-seven rooms imposes itself over the small Promenadeplatz like a slice of meringue cake too large for its plate. Every February, hundreds of diplomats, politicians, academics, and arms dealers convene here for the Munich Security Conference.
Does the rise of index funds spell catastrophe?
Money—where it comes from, where it goes—was on my mind as I drove from Brooklyn to Philadelphia last fall, a Friday the thirteenth. I spent most of the trip on a Zoom call with my wife and our doula, discussing what combination of night nurses, babysitters, and nannies we’d need come the birth of our twins, our second and third sons. Nary a dollar figure was uttered, seemingly out of respect, just as those attending a funeral avoid naming the actual cause of death.
R. Kikuo Johnson’s “Genuine Style” – The artist depicts all the luxuries the city has to offer.
Since Roe v. Wade was overturned, G.O.P. efforts to ban abortion have backfired with voters in many states—and they could do so again in November.
At 100 Centre Street, another man charged with falsifying business records had a good day in court.
Scientific American (May 15, 2024): The June 2024 issue features:
BENJAMIN CASSIDY
RACHEL NUWER
Times Literary Supplement (May 17, 2024): The latest issue features ‘The future of sex?’ – Dating apps, virtual encounters and polyamory; An American Life; Ripley’s new game; Gurus and primal screams ….
Country Life Magazine (May 14, 2024): The latest issue features…
This year’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show is poised to celebrate the unfolding freshness and energy of deciduous woods in May, as Kathryn Bradley-Hole discovers
Garden designer Tom Stuart-Smith is returning to Chelsea’s Main Avenue for the first time in 14 years for the National Garden Scheme, reveals Joanna Fortnam
It’s raining ancient folklore and proverbs as John Lewis-Stempel relies on jumping trout, croaking frogs and chirping crickets to predict the great British weather
Carla Passino examines how the brushstrokes of Monet, Turner, Klimt and Canaletto are providing colour and inspiration at Chelsea
Cathryn Spence airs the story of how—250 years ago—Joseph Priestley ‘discovered’ oxygen at Bowood House in Wiltshire
The director of London’s Charles Dickens Museum picks a classic snapshot of the capital’s skyline
Bess of Hardwick was the first of many influential Chatsworth women, as Kate Green learns
George Plumptre admires the simple beauty of the gardens at Pusey House in Oxfordshire
What makes a comfortable garden seat, asks Tiffany Daneff
Amelia Thorpe seeks out crafted benches to suit every garden
In the final part of her series, Anna Brown is focused on harvesting
Clive Aslet lauds the enduring influence of the prolific Victorian architect George Edmund Street
Marianne Taylor is captivated by the curious beauty of molluscs
Deborah Nash visits the last British firm creating horsehair fabric
The Royal Countryside Fund reception at Fortnum & Mason
Amelia Thorpe takes a look at six of the best WOW!house creations
Hetty Lintell is wowed by jewels celebrating the National Gallery
The arrival of new-season carrots is applauded by Melanie Johnson
John Wright is playing with fire as he investigates horseradish
Deborah Nicholls-Lee dreams of dainty white flowers and a fragrant lawn that never needs mowing
Sir Ian McKellen lends a ‘silvering dignity’ to Shakespeare’s famed roisterer, finds Michael Billington
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