Jolly Kafka

Sponsored by Harvard University Press Our April 6 issue—the Spring Books Issue—is online now, with James Fenton on the English garden, Frances Wilson on Kafka’s diaries, Christopher de Bellaigue on Erdoğan’s disastrous misrule, Martin Filler on Adolf Loos’s minimalism, Christine Smallwood on Bret Easton Ellis’s worst fear, Anahid Nersessian on […]

Bank crisis contagion

March 16, 2023 Hello, Insiders. Lots going on, so let’s get right to it. Here’s what’s on the agenda: Why Credit Suisse’s troubles came to a head this week. How a single TikTok video sparked a massive wave of car theft. Salesforce salaries revealed: Here’s how much employees […]

America is the New Rome

I think one part of history that gets lost when talking about the fall of Rome are the emperors who fought to save and preserve Rome, even in her final days. Gallienus, Aurelian, and Majorian are the standouts in terms of fighting to save Rome. The odds were […]

Ernst Jünger’s sinister fable of 1939

“The classical beauty of the writing, in Tess Lewis’s exquisite translation, gives a sense of the author’s sympathies. . . . [Jünger’s] short, prismatic book is beautiful.” —Sam Sacks, The Wall Street Journal ON THE MARBLE CLIFFS Ernst Jünger Translated from the German by Tess Lewis Introduction by […]

“They will learn nothing from this”

March 15, 2023 Hello, Insiders. Here’s what’s on the agenda today: The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank foreshadows a bigger reckoning for the tech industry. A laid-off Meta worker says the company paid her to not work. Tom Sandoval’s restaurant Schwartz & Sandy’s is thriving despite Scandoval. Plus, […]

A Net Over the Void

A dispatch from our Art Editor on the art and illustrations in the Review’s March 23 and April 6 issues. Our seventh art newsletter is brought to you from Santa Monica, where the clothing designer Rachel Comey and I have come with the writer Maile Meloy to take a […]

3/15/23: Russian Jet Shoots Down American Drone, Desantis Speaks On Ukraine, Tucker Scoffs Trump Foreign Policy, Is SVB Like 2008, Biden Approves Fossil Fuel Drilling, ChatGPT4.0, Women in Workforce, Ebola Outbreak to Covid Lab Leak

Ryan and Emily discuss a Russian jet shooting down an American drone, Desantis gives statements on Ukraine similar to Trump but receives more backlash, Tucker ridicules what Trump got done during his term and calls him “autistic”, Is SVB the sign of another 2008 like collapse? Biden approves […]

What does population decline mean for China?

What does population decline mean for China? Scott Rozelle on a globally invisible issue shaping the lives of millions of the country’s rural kids. Sean Nangle / The Signal China’s worldwide competition with the United States regularly captivates global attention—as with Washington recently shooting down a Chinese spy balloon, ongoing […]

El Nino Speaks 80: Exposing Gun Control Myths

Researcher Alexander Adams provides an evidence-based approach to pro-Second Amendment advocacy. Listen to José Niño sound off on contemporary political affairs. Share Has Gun Control Inc. being spread total falsehoods about gun crime? Alexander Adams, research fellow at the Firearms Research Center of University of Wyoming College of […]

‘Straight Through the Eyeholes’

In the Review’s April 6 issue, Ed Park writes about the cartoonist Daniel Clowes, creator of the comic book Eightball (1989–2004), the first eighteen issues of which have just been collected in one volume by the publisher Fantagraphics. “Varying in tone and ambition,” writes Park, Eightball “fixates on verbal zing and graphic […]

How to sound smart on SVB

March 14, 2023 Hello! I’m Matt Turner, the editor in chief for business at Insider. Here’s what’s on the agenda today: Three big takeaways from Silicon Valley Bank’s crisis, from the first-ever social media bank run to which big banks will benefit. A billionaire tech CEO said Meta […]

Why Not Let Banks Fail?

TUESDAY, MARCH 14, 2023 Make no mistake; the American Revolution was not fought to obtain freedom, but to preserve the liberties that Americans already had as colonials. Independence was no conscious goal, secretly nurtured in cellar or jungle by bearded conspirators, but a reluctant last resort, to preserve […]

3/14/23: Bank Stocks Collapse, David Dayen Trashes Bailout Defenders, China Humiliates Biden on Ukraine, Kamala Unpopularity, Majority Poll Believes Lab Leak, Bailout Reveals Rigged System, East Palestine Forgotten, Matt Taibbi Responds to Congressional Smears

Krystal and Saagar discuss Bank stocks collapsing after Biden says Banking System “Sound”, Secret Fed Bailout pumps billions into banks, David Dayen (@ddayen) executive editor at The Prospect trashes Jason Calacanis’s takes on SVB bailout, China humiliates Biden with potential Ukraine peace deal, Dems panic over Kamala’s unpopularity, […]