The sad decline of painting
Pick up a paintbrush in a state-funded art school these days and you’ll be shown the door
Life
Tuesday
Wednesday
How Palm Beach became Wall Street South
No fewer than 250 financial firms have relocated here in the years since the pandemic
The importance of the Band-Aid
The graduation from boo-boo kisses to Band-Aids is one of the most underappreciated milestones in a child’s development
The dog that haunts Russ Benzin
Skipper was hyperalert, Russ vigilant but pensive
Why are Europeans so untroubled by their ignorance of America?
Romano Prodi charges Trump with having broken the rules of international diplomacy
Thursday
Trump’s security, dress codes and airport romance in Palm Beach
With Trump spending so much time Mar-a-Lago, there are good spin-offs and not-so-good spin-offs
Asteroid 2024 YR4 and the geekoisie
I went on a weeklong comets-and-asteroids-destroy-our-world binge
Why I won’t date younger women
I may be thirty-six on the inside, but on the outside I definitely look seventy
Baseball may be trapped in a two-party system
The sport braces for another Dodgers-Yankees scrum, a duopoly less about parity than power
Monday
Toby Young: love him or loathe him?
Everyone has at least one friend that none of their other friends can stand, someone you love but everyone else loathes
The controversy of Daylight Savings Time
Like so many intrusions upon our liberties, it was introduced to America by war
Why human history is fated to end in apocalypse
Whatever advances in the human condition will be made in this century will not be accomplished in the spheres in which previous ones have been achieved
Which GOAT really is the greatest?
From DiMaggio’s fifty-six-game hitting streak in 1941 to the ‘Tiger Slam,’ a look back at the true sporting marvels of the ages
Friday
Are we still doing phrasing?
In our irony-sodden age, children may be the last reminder that words mean something
A tale of two parties
The secret to working a room is to know when you’re in a room that can’t be worked
With reference to
You never know when or wherefrom these pitches are coming. I doubt that even Oscar Wilde could hit much above .500 in this league
A symbol of hope for Europe
Trump came to office on January 20 in the strongest possible position
On the front line of the tennis magazine wars
How many more boutique mags can the sport bear?
Thursday
Road-tripping with Wittgenstein
Prior generations of children grew up with definitive signs of when they had entered an adult space. Their senses told them so
On embracing the winter years
I don’t know where the time has gone