Times Literary Supplement (May 29, 2024): The latest issue features ‘Kafka’s Century’ – Karen Leeder, Becca Rothfeld, Gabriel Josipovici, Michael Hofmann et al…; Colm Toibin returns to Brooklyn; India under Modi; A Jim Crow insane asylum and Literary cricket…
Country Life Magazine (May 28, 2024): The latest issue features…
We salute youAs Blind Veterans UK pays its own special tribute to survivors of the D-Day operation, Octavia Pollock puts words to Richard Cannon’s poignant photographs
Allan Mallinson examines the key role that country houses played in preparations for D-Day, aided by well-stocked wine cellars and countesses in the canteen
Was the 1924 British Everest Expedition a success or failure? Robin Ashcroft takes a broad perspective as he sifts through a century of speculation
In the first of four articles, Annunciata Elwes investigates how flexible working has opened up the North to City commuters
Holly Kirkwood explores the Balearic Islands — the life and sol of the Mediterranean Sea
Chelsea provides many magic moments for Tiffany Daneff, who finds inspiring gardens on Main Avenue and in the Great Pavilion
John Wright raises a glass to hops, that stalwart ingredient of the ale-brewing industry
Before his death last month, the celebrated conductor selected a compelling and inspiring work
In the second of two articles, John Goodall charts the recent history of Hartland Abbey, Devon
Kate Green reveals Thomas Darley’s role in the story of the English Thoroughbred horse
A Passage to India reflects the rising tensions of the British Raj. Matthew Dennison revisits the masterpiece 100 years on
John Lewis-Stempel marvels at the variety of microscopic wild-life that calls tree bark home
Hetty Lintell serves up a new tennis collection, plus Heston Blumenthal’s favourite things
A bright, colourful drawing room and Alidad at Wow!house
Charles Quest-Ritson reveals how springs have shaped Selehurst garden in the West Sussex Weald
Melanie Johnson celebrates sweet and juicy strawberries
The ancient Greeks harnessed its medicinal powers, but yarrow now has a role to play in modern agriculture, discovers Ian Morton
Sergio García Sánchez’s “Scoot” – The artist depicts the thrill of leaning into summer in the city.
Biden’s a pedophile; Trump’s a fascist; the maga Hasidim have to get their act together—and other sentiments spewed at the former President’s rally in Crotona Park.
The team at Autopilot, an app that lets you copy the trades of Nancy Pelosi’s husband (up forty-five per cent last year) or Dan Crenshaw (up forty-one), choose their newest offering.
CHAPTERS 00:00 Intro 00:30 Living arrangements 01:56 Education 03:11 Heritage 04:24 Social life & hobbies 05:39 Legal milestones 06:55 Red-Light District 07:25 The pros and cons of living in Amsterdam
Meet Cosmo, a 19-year-old student and native Amsterdammer, as he shares his perspective on life in the city: how he spends his free time, gets around, and how Amsterdam has shaped him. #Amsterdam #Netherlands #YoungEuropeans
BARRON’S MAGAZINE – MAY 13, 2024 ISSUE:
An income annuity might just be your lock on enough money for life. Here’s how to know.Long read
Their 5%-plus yield looks attractive—especially with the Federal Reserve unlikely to cut interest rates soon.Long read
The Week In Art Podcast (May 24, 2024): As the Louvre’s director admits that the Paris museum wants to move its most famous painting away from the crowded gallery in which it is currently displayed, we ask the Leonardo specialist Martin Kemp: does the museum have a Mona Lisa problem?
We also talk about the painting’s continuing allure and the ongoing efforts to explain its mysteries. In London, remarkably, Judy Chicago has just opened her first major multidisciplinary survey in a British public gallery, at the Serpentine North. We talk to her about the show. And this episode’s Work of the Week is Christian Schad’s Self-Portrait with Model (1927). The painting features in Splendour and Misery: New Objectivity in Germany at the Leopold Museum in Vienna. Hans-Peter Wipplinger, the director of the museum and co-curator of the show, tells us more.
Judy Chicago: Revelations, Serpentine North, London, until 1 September.
Splendour and Misery: New Objectivity in Germany, Leopold Museum, Vienna, until 29 September.
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
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