Signifying Nothing The coronavirus is not here to teach humanity a lesson. Beware of its self-proclaimed interpreters
Money Pit The sheikh who can’t remember how many villas and castles he owns
Sounding the Alarm Thomas Chatterton Williams, an originator of Harper’s “Letter on Justice and Open Debate,” on cancel culture and the future of free speech
Voyage of the Damned The harrowing inside story of the coronavirus-ravaged cruise ship with 2,500 passengers that no one wanted
Capital Offenses The latest battleground in the push for racial justice? The copydesk
Help Is Here? In pandemic times, the most privileged New Yorkers find that dealing with domestic staff is especially fraught
Anatomy of a Catastrophe Why we need a coronavirus commission, and who should—and shouldn’t—lead it
Dutch Courage At a protest in Amsterdam, flashbacks to a childhood shaped by the civil-rights movement
Back to School A nation of strivers under lockdown meets the à la carte subscription academy MasterClass
Hamptons Behaving Badly In this installment: The Tale of the Sag Harbor Squatter
Watch Your Step A Harvard medical professor gets to the root of the 10,000-steps-per-day fad, and it has nothing to do with science
June 17, 2020
Fawlt Lines The newest wave of political correctness infects the BBC—and takes away from the Black Lives Matter movement’s urgent cause
June 15, 2020
FOSO: Fear of Standing Out Online, the only thing worse than not showing solidarity with an important cause is showing it in the wrong way
The New King of All Media Scott Galloway, one half of the must-listen podcast Pivot, is everywhere these days, railing against big tech and spreading big ideas
1963 All Over Again Courtney and Corrie Cockrell, grandnieces of the assassinated civil-rights hero Medgar Evers, consider his legacy through the lens of George Floyd
Not Their First Rodeo Houston’s black cowboys and cowgirls ride for Black Lives Matter, and champion their unheralded legacy
Burn After Reading In a baffling twist of fate, a new study reveals that smokers are less likely to get the coronavirus than those who abstain
June 10, 2020
Sex and the System In New York and in red-light districts around the world, intimacy just got even more complicated
Bleach Party For enterprising hoteliers, paranoia is the new sustainability
Social (Media) Unrest For twentysomething protesters, passions run high. Not just in the streets but also on Instagram
Nazi Lockdown The German occupation crushed ordinary life in Paris as its citizens hid from the “brown plague”
