Putin’s Last Stand
The Promise and Peril of Russian Defeat
The Global Zeitenwende
How to Avoid a New Cold War in a Multipolar Era
A Free World, If You Can Keep It
Ukraine and American Interests
Previews: Foreign Affairs Magazine – Jan/Feb 2023
Category Archives: Magazines
Arts & Culture: Brandeis Magazine – Winter 2023
Brandeis Magazine (Winter 2022/2023):
The Amber of Our Thoughts
How are memories created and preserved? Brandeis scientists are studying the brain to find out — and, ultimately, untangle disorders like Alzheimer’s and dementia.
A ‘Notorious’ Champion of Women
In the 1970s, lawyer Ruth Bader Ginsburg developed an unusually successful strategy for fighting sex discrimination.
The Age of Invention
An analysis of patent data offers a window into human creativity.
Previews: History Today Magazine – January 2023
History Today Magazine – January 2023 issue:
The Cold, Cold War
Throughout the 19th century, rival nations battled to conquer the poles. One explorer set out to establish an Arctic colony – or to get rich trying.
Roses are Red?
The Wars of the Roses saw some of the bloodiest months in English history, but winning on the battlefield did not necessarily mean winning the war.
Perspectives: Harper’s Magazine – January 2023
Harper’s Magazine – January 2023 Issue:
Truth Takes a Vacation
Trumpism and the American philosophical tradition
Twenty-five years ago, the philosopher Richard Rorty accomplished something many writers aspire to but few ever pull off: he predicted the future. Toward the end of his 1998 book Achieving Our Country, Rorty considered the possibility that “the old industrialized democracies are heading into a Weimar-like period, one in which populist movements are likely to overturn constitutional governments.”
Boomtown
A solar land rush in the West
A solar farm in the Mojave Desert. All photographs from Nevada by Balazs Gardi, October and November 2022, for Harper’s Magazine
Arts & Culture: The New Yorker – December 26, 2022
Roz and Emily Eat Their Way Through Midwood
Our first stop: a cheese Danish. Can’t skip breakfast
What Kevin McCarthy Will Do to Gain Power
The Republican leader’s ambition has always been his defining characteristic. Attempting to placate both Trumpists and moderates may lead to his downfall.
Picturing the Cove Inn
Memories of a high-school job at a local seafood restaurant, blurred by time.
Culture: American Indian Magazine – Winter 2022-23
American Indian Magazine (Winter 2022-2023) issue:
The Indigenous Origins of Maple Syrup
The gathering of syrup from maple trees in the woodlands of Canada and the northeastern United States is an ancient practice that had helped sustain Indigenous peoples for thousands of years. Yet during the colonial era, some lost their connection to the tree and its ceremonies. Only recently have many started to reclaim it.
In the Fading Tracks of Caribou: Numbers of an Animal Central to Inuit Culture are Declining Drastically in Parts of Canada
Robert Watt shot his first caribou when he was eight years old. A small group from his Inuit community of Kuujjuaq in northern Quebec had traveled upriver toward the confluence of the Larch and Caniapiscau Rivers to hunt the animals. The memory of that day almost four decades ago still lingers. “The air was crisp and cold,” recalled Watt. “You could see your breath.”
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Historic English Homes: Writer Evelyn Waugh’s ‘Piers Court’, Gloucester
Piers Court, the house where Evelyn Waugh wrote his nostalgic masterpiece Brideshead Revisited, was used as a safe house for Royalists during the Civil War. He lived there from 1937 to 1956 – apart from during the war years when it was taken over by nuns.
It seems a sad state of affairs for a famed house whose previous owners — who bought Piers Court in 2010 — had done much to enhance a place described by Pevsner as ‘dignified and elegant’, which, behind its classical 18th-century façade, caters for both formal entertaining and informal family living. The standard of fixtures and fittings is really something – as this picture of one of the bathrooms demonstrates.
Opinion: A Russian Attack Looms, Giving Up Growth, French Nuclear Industry
A selection of three essential articles read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist. This week, a looming Russian offensive, why the rich world’s politicians are giving up on growth (10:00) and can the French nuclear industry avoid meltdown? (16:25),
A looming Russian offensive
Ukraine’s chiefs, in an unprecedented series of briefings, tell The Economist about the critical months that lie ahead
Why are the rich world’s politicians giving up on economic growth?
Even when they say they want more prosperity, they act as if they don’t
The French exception
As the world turns back to nuclear power, it should heed the lessons from France
Culture: New York Times Magazine – Dec 18, 2022
The 12.18.22 Issue – The stories of 12 children, among the thousands, killed this year by what has become the leading cause of death for American kids: gun violence. But these are not the stories of how they died. These are the stories of the lives they lived.
Why We Published a Special Project About Child Gun Deaths
Every December, The Times Magazine devotes a special project to the deaths of notable people. This year, we are telling the stories of 12 children killed by guns.
Childhood’s Greatest Danger: The Data on Kids and Gun Violence
Gun violence recently surpassed car accidents as the leading cause of death for American children. No group of kids has been spared, but some have fared far worse.
What Guns Did to My Childhood
They ended my innocence even before I copped one of my own.
Financial Review: Barron’s Magazine – Dec 19, 2022
Stocks Could Return 10% Next Year. Be Ready for a Drop First.
After a selloff in the year’s first half, equities could rebound as investors anticipate a return to economic growth, market strategists say.
Our 10 Favorite Stocks for 2023
Our 10 favorites from last year handily beat the market. Why we now like Alphabet, Bank of America, Medtronic, and seven others.
The Crypto Ice Age Is Here. It May Get Worse.
The FTX collapse has sparked a crisis of confidence just as the industry tries to burnish its reputation. What’s ahead for 2023.
How to Dodge High Medicare Premiums
Retirees need to start planning at age 60 to avoid getting blindsided by the income-related monthly adjustment amount, or IRMAA, which can get tacked on to standard Medicare premiums
