Gondoliers’ Row
In Venice, a rule favoring the offspring of gondoliers sparked fury. Its defenders point to the importance of passing the tradition from father to son
Depposition
This libel trial continues to expose celebrity behavior more depraved than anything the tabloids could invent
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
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
A $60 million wedding, and then a big family dustup
Stung by Their Beauty
Bees are earth’s keystone species. If they perish, we perish. So, what happens when you add 250,000 bees to your farm? Well, things start buzzing …
The End or the Beginning?
Anne Applebaum says democracy is in its final days. The author says, Not so fast
I ❤️ MG
A longtime collaborator recalls Milton Glaser, a giant of midcentury graphic design
The Lion Queens
An elite group of female rangers take on wildlife poachers in Kenya
The Fall Guy
Bronx nebbish Herb Stempel revealed that America’s best-rated quiz show was a fraud—and so was its beloved champion, Charles Van Doren
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
The Passenger
Why Jeffrey Epstein cultivated a friendship with Bill Clinton is obvious. What the ex-president got out of it is harder to explain
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
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?
Anatomy of a Catastrophe
Why we need a coronavirus commission, and who should—and shouldn’t—lead it
