I Wrote Him to Reassure Him of His Correctness

Prof who said doctors should be judged on merit, not race ‘no longer’ holds same job, colleagues say.

Now The Gibson Guitar Raids Make Sense

I had already written about the scandal in Bandits of Madagascar.

Mauritius Declares Emergency

Oil spill threatens ecological disaster. Sad... we were there last year.

NASA

‘Certain cosmic nicknames’ are ‘actively harmful,’ will ‘reexamine’ their use. Dumb.

Following Lunatics

The fantasies of Mussolini and Hitler.

Reading Martha Stewart’s Lips

Standing in her pool at her home in East Hampton, Long Island, her pouting pink lips oozing sexuality.

It’s Not Like It’s a Steinie Pure or Anything

Beer brand  unwittingly named after Māori word for ‘pubic hair.’
Canada’s Hell’s Basement thought the word ‘huruhuru’ meant ‘feather’ – they were wrong.

The Unraveling of America

Anthropologist Wade Davis on how COVID-19 signals the end of the American era.

The Website’s New Look

Love it.

Why Didn't You Just Do What You Were Told?

By Jenny Diski– supremely sharp.

Doubting Gauguin

An amateur detective takes on the National Gallery, and the art world.

We Quit Our Jobs to Build a Cabin

Everything went wrong.

Meet The Women Trying To Catch One Of Canada's Most Prolific Romance Scammers

His hard-knocks childhood, his high-paying job, his Caribbean sailboat, that was all fake. But multiple Canadian women say what he took from them is very, very real—and they want vengeance.

Big Space

Our planet is a tiny porthole, looking over a cosmic sea. Can we learn what lies beyond our own horizons of perception?

How the Pandemic Defeated America

A virus has brought the world’s most powerful country to its knees.

The Coronavirus Is Never Going Away

No matter what happens now, the virus will continue to circulate around the world.

How a Cheese Goes Extinct

When you talk with aficionados, it usually doesn’t take long for the conversation to veer away from curds, whey, and mold, and toward matters of life and death.