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
Money Pit
The sheikh who can’t remember how many villas and castles he owns
Off with Their Perks
How “Penelopegate” sentenced a leading French pol to prison and shook the country’s ruling elite
Barbarians at the School Gate
Part II: Illicit affairs? Kids out of wedlock? Will smear-mongering parents trash one of New York’s most elite schools?
There’s the Rub
A massage therapist on Epstein’s Little St. James Island says Ghislaine Maxwell was the ultimate anti-victim
Voyage of the Damned
The harrowing inside story of the coronavirus-ravaged cruise ship with 2,500 passengers that no one wanted
The Art of the Steal
Jet-setting art dealer Inigo Philbrick is facing 20 years in jail after the F.B.I. bound his hands with zip ties and arrested him on a South Pacific island
The Making of a Madam
Growing up, Ghislaine Maxwell was envied, admired, and teased, but what made her conspire with Jeffrey Epstein for decades?
Help Is Here?
In pandemic times, the most privileged New Yorkers find that dealing with domestic staff is especially fraught
The Making of a Predator, Part III
Just why did Georgina Chapman marry Harvey? And what did she get out of it?
The African Conspiracy
Did white Europeans, led by a shadowy “Mr. X,” kill the U.N. secretary-general 60 years ago—to keep power over black Africans?
Anatomy of a Catastrophe
Why we need a coronavirus commission, and who should—and shouldn’t—lead it
The Real Benjamin Braddock
Charles Webb rebelled against his privileged upbringing by writing The Graduate—then renounced his own phenomenal success
Capital Offenses
The latest battleground in the push for racial justice? The copydesk
Hamptons Behaving Badly
In this installment: The Tale of the Sag Harbor Squatter
Live at the Front
Vera Lynn’s torch songs were not high art, but they kept up morale among the rank-and-file British soldiers fighting W.W. II
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
Will Some Twentysomethings Take Down Trump?
Two roommates sue the president for violating their constitutional rights—simply so he could pose with a Bible
Estate of Affairs
Tax fraud, an absent accountant, and squabbling male models are threatening to undermine Karl Lagerfeld’s legacy
