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No life
The gurus seem to accept yoga’s status as an easy-peasy hobby for overpaid attention-seekers
Lloyd Evans
Culture
She’s the nation’s court jester
Germán Saucedo
A mixture of Martin Luther King Jr. and L. Ron Hubbard, he is our greatest living orator
Luke Lyman
Plumbing the depths
It is a grand, multifaceted masterpiece of badness
Curtis Yarvin
Dukes
Excerpts from her new memoir are a mixture of the newsworthy and the unremarkable
Alexander Larman
Progress in practice
Innovative local leaders are having their day
Michael R. Bloomberg
Espionage Act
Looks like the man with the walrus mustache got a little careless
Neal Pollack
Good trips
Psychedelic therapy doesn’t simply suppress symptoms. It may help reshape the system generating them
Nick Carter
The last word
ChatGPT and its AI relatives are not our competitors – they’re our sherpas, able to scan the web in the time it takes us to sip our tea
Lawrence Bernstein
In vino veritas
The winery’s most distinctive wines are blends of Portuguese grapes grown in the Paso Robles hills and the valleys beneath
Roger Kimball
Like fairyland and the astral plane, the online world is navigable only if you learn its rules
Katherine Dee
Down with ebooks!
Art Edwards
The revolutionary impact of emotion informs Ferdinand Mount’s ambitious cultural history, Soft
Tiffany Jenkins
Katie Herzog has all the serial relapser energy you would expect from the addict who has forsworn AA
Arabella Byrne
Tim Robinson’s latest cringe-fest is sophisticated and hilarious
Table talk in London these days is so relentlessly gloomy that we need some irreverent juvenile banter to lighten things up
Cosmo Landesman
Thanks to modern conveniences, it’s not to be feared
Rich Cromwell
Some years ago I decided, after a lifetime of being less than courageous, to stand up to aggressors
Catriona Olding
The MAGA set share the predilections and tax brackets of the people they criticize
True colors
Trump’s indifference to being called a racist may be having a wider effect
Heather Mac Donald
Court circular
Few pro-Trump bulldogs in the government have a sharper bite right now than the FCC chairman
Appointments
Does the President have the authority to hire and fire his agents and underlings? The Constitution says yes
A poor compass
The doctrine boils down to this: the more threatening a person is, the less threatening he is
Christopher Caldwell
Few like it haute
The week has evolved into a content-driven machine
Isabella Redjai