The End or the Beginning?
Anne Applebaum says democracy is in its final days. The author says, Not so fast
An Outsize Burden
America’s Black elite deserve to be reckoned with on their own terms—not those created by the media
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
Anatomy of a Catastrophe
Why we need a coronavirus commission, and who should—and shouldn’t—lead it
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
Dutch Courage
At a protest in Amsterdam, flashbacks to a childhood shaped by the civil-rights movement
Monuments Men
Guess which side surrendered at Appomattox
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
Fawlt Lines
The newest wave of political correctness infects the BBC—and takes away from the Black Lives Matter movement’s urgent cause
Not Their First Rodeo
Houston’s black cowboys and cowgirls ride for Black Lives Matter, and champion their unheralded legacy
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
My Name Is Karen …
… and I do not want to speak to your manager
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
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
Nazi Lockdown
The German occupation crushed ordinary life in Paris as its citizens hid from the “brown plague”
Bleach Party
For enterprising hoteliers, paranoia is the new sustainability
Sex and the System
In New York and in red-light districts around the world, intimacy just got even more complicated
