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Mountainhead gets nowhere near the polished vitriol of Succession

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Mountainhead gets nowhere near the polished vitriol of Succession

You’re moderately engaged by the characters’ awfulness, but it is only a passing diversion

Alexander Larman

The rise of millionaires, valet parking and facelifts in Palm Beach

New-found popularity brings high-end problems

Peter Watson

Bezos dines with Trump after dicing up Opinion page

Plus: The botched Epstein Files rollout

Cockburn

Has Trump up-ended the Davos dominion?

Inauguration day coincides with the first day of the World Economic Forum’s infamous conference

Kate Andrews

Tech

The battle of the oligarchs

The billionaires have chosen their sides. What does that mean for the rest of us?

Joel Kotkin

Book Review
September 24, 2024
Entitlement engrossingly explores the pitfalls of privilege and philanthropy
In contrast to Rumaan Alam’s wildly successful, lockdown-resonant Leave the World Behind, the latest book is set in 2014
Jude Cook
Sports
July 25, 2024
Aron D’Souza: the man behind the ‘Olympics on steroids’
The games are designed to wind up old-guard sporting bureaucrats
Max Jeffery
Drink
April 16, 2024
The grapes of wealth
The world of wine collecting is deliberately opaque
Kathleen Willcox
Politics
January 17, 2024
Where is the bravery of the rich?
In my observation many CEOs, high-net-worth individuals and others live in absolute fear — not least of their junior staff
Douglas Murray
Book Review
February 24, 2023
A guerrilla gardener and a billionaire fight it out
Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton reviewed
Stuart Kelly
Business
December 20, 2022
How Big Philanthropy became Big Grift
Effective Altruism is ultimately rooted in saviorism
Leighton Woodhouse
Book Review
April 25, 2022
German billionaires are still benefiting from the Nazis
Nazi Billionaires: The Dark History of Germany’s Wealthiest Dynasties by David de Jong reviewed
Katja Hoyer
Science & Tech
April 15, 2022
Elon Musk is the wrong kind of billionaire
Twitter’s moneyed employees don’t hate wealth; they hate wealth that defends free speech
Bill Zeiser
Science & Tech
November 12, 2021
The wealth explosion
Nine of America’s ten richest men are wealthy as a result of the microprocessor
John Steele Gordon
Finance
November 2, 2021
The trouble with unrealized capital gains taxes
Ron Wyden’s wealth tax is as flawed as it is flatly unconstitutional
John Steele Gordon

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