The Biden-DeSantis Re-Balancing Act

A new era of normality and stability is possible. Let’s nurture it. Andrew Sullivan Biden and DeSantis speak with Florida residents impacted by Hurricane Ian on October 5, 2022. (Olivier Douliery/AFP via Getty Images) For a written statement on foreign policy from a potential presidential candidate, it was, […]

Second thoughts about DeSantis?

Rafi  Schwartz Second thoughts about DeSantis? Justin  Klawans Is it time to stop dyeing the Chicago River green? Harold  Maass Will GPT-4 change the world? Advertisement from Wisebread Best Rewards Card of 2023 With $200 Bonus Devika  Rao Parasitic fungus that kills spiders discovered in Brazil Brendan  Morrow […]

3/17/23: Jon Stewart Pushes Mark Cuban On SVB, Carcinogens Detected in East Palestine, Roger Waters Concert Cancelled For Israel Position, McNally Caught w/ Embarrassing Social Media Flirting, Snapchat Rolls Out Crazy AI bot, Ken Klippenstein on Gov Gavin Newsom’s Connection To SVB

In this episode we discuss Jon Stewart giving push back to Mark Cuban’s takes on SVB bailout in a recent interview, an independent test in East Palestine, Ohio detected deadly carcinogens in the water, a Roger Waters concert was cancelled due to his past statements on Israel, Lieutenant […]

Where did “Woke-ism” come from? Social Democracy, NY Intellectuals, Color Revolutions

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‘Is Fox News Really Doomed?’

— Justin Miller, deputy editor, Intelligencer More than 1,000 people have been arrested for the attack on the Capitol, but accountability for those who inspired the January 6 insurrection has been lacking. Maybe that is part of the reason why there seems to be so much riding on […]

3/16/23: US Pushes Tik Tok Sale For National Security, Stock Chaos, Potential “Lehman Moment”, Jamie Dimon Bailout Meetings, Neocons Attack Trump/Desantis on Ukraine, Michigan Rolls Back “Anti Union” Law, The Fed Must Be Stopped, Biden’s Controversial New Indian Ambassador

Krystal and Saagar discuss the US pushing for a Tik Tok sale citing National Security concerns, Stock Chaos as the Credit Suisse bank struggles incite new fears, Nouriel Roubini claims we are in a “Lehman moment” as bank bubble bursts, meetings between Jamie Dimon and the Biden Treasury […]

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 […]