Villa Envy
Foreigners can buy a village town house in Sicily for the price of an espresso. And get a tax cut
Boris’s Bunny Boiler
The British P.M.’s onetime American friend Jennifer Arcuri wants to publish diaries detailing their trysts and telephone calls
All Woke and No Play
Academics retaliate against P.C. censorship terrorists with panic buttons
Letter from Cairo
In Egypt, a bad feeling about what the fallout from the Soleimani assassination might bring
Design for Assisted Living
Sweden’s Queen Silvia and Ikea team up to create pre-fab, low-cost apartments for older people, including those with dementia
Goops!
The marketing of Gwyneth’s genitalia
Putin on the Ritz
To understand Russia’s leader, go back to Stalin
For-Profit Feminism
Who’s really making a killing from the quest for workplace equality?
Is Paris Fuming? Oui!
Our expat in France reports on life during nationwide strikes, now in their third month
Gail Sheehy, 1937—2020
We are honored to have published her letter from Cuba earlier this year
Living Really Large
Outside Cairo, the biggest man-made structure in the world—an apartment complex for 30,000 residents—is in the works
Generation in Retrograde
Millennials won’t do anything without consulting their horoscope
Painting the Town (Rectory) Red
The rise and fall of Farrow & Ball, paint purveyors to a vanishing upper class
Cape of No Hope
Corruption and crime have killed Nelson Mandela’s dream and doomed the country’s future
Is This the End of the First Amendment?
A startling court ruling makes it easier to jail insider traders—as well as whistleblowers and reporters
Going Cold Turkey
Can a millennial survive a week without a smartphone?
Et Tu, A.C.L.U.?
How America’s staunchest defenders of free speech lost their nerve
Has Anyone Seen Mrs. Harvey Weinstein?
After this week, his future is suitably bleak. But what about his ex-wife Georgina Chapman’s?
Model Land
A theme park for people obsessed with runways, photo shoots, makeovers, and red-carpet rides
Yiddish Envy
Why Catholic Poles are discovering Jewish roots they don’t even have
Lessons of the Spanish Flu
What can we learn from the 20th century’s deadliest virus outbreak?
We’re All Germophobes Now
And it’s time to end the handshake madness
The Great Plague Diaries
Samuel Pepys’s 1665 account of life in London ravaged by bubonic plague is all too familiar in 2020
Fiddling While Britain Burns
Boris Johnson’s laissez-faire view of the pandemic defies the world—and science