The 👊🇺🇸🔥 presidency

A diverting but unsurprising new history of the Astor clan

Book Review

There is a fine, perceptive book to be written about the Astors and their influence, but Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune is not it

Anne Sebba

Stop telling them how to spend their money

Kara Kennedy

‘The debris is consistent with a catastrophic implosion of the vessel’

Michael Bachmann

Striving and searching for the new is a good thing, even if it ends in tragedy

Ben Domenech

Internet

Everyone is piling on this oddball for his bizarre posts

Katherine Dee

Theater
February 27, 2023
& Juliet and Titanique: two newly minted cult classics
Let me tell you a secret: the theater world still adores Shakespeare, even in 2023
Robert S. Erickson
Film
December 30, 2022
Titanic was the original White Lotus
Looking back at James Cameron’s one-dimensional criticism of the rich
Jon Brown
March 19, 2020
Will quarantine for travelers become normal again?
My greatest surprise at the coronavirus outbreak is that it has not happened before
Rory Sutherland
Television
May 3, 2019
Brace yourself Donny, spoilers are coming
Ruining Game of Thrones is in the global interest for Godfrey
Godfrey Elfwick