A version of this column originally ran in Le Devoir on July 2, 2024. Translated from the French by Elettra Pauletto. It may seem paradoxical that a porn star could arouse optimism amid an election ...

On the second day of the 1924 Democratic National Convention, at Madison Square Garden, for example, partisan divide reached ...

"I have no use for politicians," says Fritz Leutwiler, head of the Bank for International Settlements. "They lack the judgment of central bankers" ...

I’ve never visited the office of this magazine. Oh, sure, the editors have invited me up—they’re very polite—but I’ve declined, because an unseen office is a useful thing. The imagination can tailor ...

Before going up Millstone Hill the crowd waited in a field for darkness to fall. As the long summer day trailed on, they twirled colored ribbons and tossed devil sticks in the air, a jam band played, ...

Like most of my generation, I was brought up on the saying “Satan finds some mischief still for idle hands to do.” Being a highly virtuous child, I believed all that I was told and acquired a ...

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From an introduction to the audiobook edition of J. F. Martel’s Reclaiming Art in the Age of Artifice, which was released in May by Hachette Audio. Toward the end of… ...

How the press combats rumor, the market rigger, and the propagandist ...