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What Ralph Waldo Emerson Knew About Money May 06, 2024
When Ralph Waldo Emerson and his friends hammered out the principles of Transcendentalism in the mid-1830s, the result was a fairly gossamer way of thinking. The movement included a sizable number of activists and reformers, but as theorists the Tran...
‘Dark Money’ Influence Expanding, Author Reveals May 02, 2024
The left-wing Arabella Advisors network has raked in more money than either of the two major political parties and affects almost every element of public policy and elections, argues Scott Walter, president of the Capital Research Center, a Washingto...
Conspicuously Absent April 18, 2024
One of the pleasures of reading 19th-century novels is that authors write openly about money. Take for instance Mr. Bennett, the patriarch in Pride and Prejudice, whose £2,000 a year makes him amongst the wealthier members of the gentry. With that su...
30 Ways to Revitalize Arts & Culture April 17, 2024
This is just my wish list. Nobody would ever let me implement these ideas—too much money is at stake.But I can dream, can’t I?I’m sure you have suggestions of your own. Please share them in the comments....
On the Myth of the Middle Class Writer April 16, 2024
Darryl Lorenzo Wellington was for two years the sixth poet laureate of Santa Fe. He also sold his plasma to get by.I first met Wellington through the organization I co-founded, Economic Hardship Reporting Project, when I edited an essay about how he ...
Several Attempts at Understanding Percival Everett April 12, 2024
Toward the end of Percival Everett’s 2021 novel The Trees, about a series of murders in present-day Money, Mississippi, the small town where 13-year-old Emmet Till was brutally lynched in 1955, a list of Black Americans who died by lynching is read a...
The Great American Speculator April 11, 2024
Emerson is a difficult subject for a biography; on one hand, a biographer must compete with his journals. And because some of Emerson's most famous and important essays were in the mode of biography–the strange and wonderful “Representative Men” seri...
The Secret to Women's College Basketball's Success April 11, 2024
There was a lot of reaction in the sports world to the following chart from a Wall Street Journal article titled, “NCAA Women Beat Men in Finals’ Ratings for First Time—but Got 99% Less TV Money”...
Could AI Make Us Wise? April 09, 2024
The internet caters to our baser interests, surfacing clickbait news, ragebait on Twitter, thirst-traps on Instagram, the dumbest thing you can watch on TikTok, the most attractive person on your dating app, and the cheapest things you can buy from T...
'Dune's' Moral Unseriousness April 08, 2024
I have written about Denis Villeneuve for some years now, remarking that no other director is given so much money to waste on beautiful spectacles. This might do us honor. Villeneuve is the favored artist of the digital/AI era (Blade Runner 2049 coul...
The Future of American Sports Isn’t Pretty April 04, 2024
Last month, a scandal broke when representatives of the Los Angeles Dodgers released a statement alleging that Ippei Mizuhara, the Japanese-language interpreter for the once-in-a-century talent Shohei Ohtani, had stolen $4.5 million of Ohtani’s money...
How I Got Scammed Out of $50,000 February 16, 2024
On a Tuesday evening this past October, I put $50,000 in cash in a shoe box, taped it shut as instructed, and carried it to the sidewalk in front of my apartment, my phone clasped to my ear. “Don’t let anyone hurt me,” I told the man on the line, fee...
Lily Gladstone Is Holding the Door Open February 05, 2024
Life was different for Lily Gladstone in the summer of 2020. She had built up a small but impressive résumé in independent films, including two by Kelly Reichardt, “Certain Women” and “First Cow.” But the pandemic had shut down the industry, and she ...
