The Composer Has No Clothes
July 31, 2024
The rot at the heart of the classical music industry.
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Venture Missionaries
July 30, 2024
Making the church a startup.
The Measurers
My coffin? My corpse? My mortality?
Value Judgment
July 25, 2024
“Value-based care” is good for the bottom line—but bad for patients.
Game Plan
July 24, 2024
Paris on the eve of the Olympics.
Netanyahu’s Inferno
July 23, 2024
Will Israel invade Lebanon? It seems increasingly likely.
The Eyes of Lacy
July 18, 2024
How does a girl’s gaze grow up?
The Techies Who Lunch
July 17, 2024
What is the investment-driven, high-tech future, and why would we want it?
To Russia, with Love
July 16, 2024
The American right’s love affair with Russia.
Shaggå of the Painfully Infinite Sky
All irony has vanished
Ritualistic Postures
July 10, 2024
You don’t look at her art so much as wait for its disclosures.
Give Us This Doomsday
July 09, 2024
Theories of weather modification and looming apocalypse pushed back on consensus reality.