The Globalist Podcast (June 11, 2024): We examine the latest developments in Iran’s presidential race and take stock of last week’s European Parliament elections. Plus: a closer look at Belarus’s participation in nuclear drills with Russia.
The New York Times — Tuesday, June 11, 2024
U.N. Passes Gaza Cease-Fire Resolution as Blinken Presses Israel and Hamas
The Security Council endorsed a U.S.-backed plan, while Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken visited the Middle East to lobby for it, but Hamas and Israel were noncommittal.
In Calling Elections in France, Macron Makes a Huge Gamble
The president has challenged voters to test the sincerity of their support for the far right in European elections. Were the French letting off steam, or did they really mean it?
She’s Fighting to Save America’s ‘Last Best Place’ From Suicide
Montana’s suicide rate has been the highest in the U.S. for the past three years. Most of the deaths involved firearms. But suicide rarely registers in the national debate over guns.
A Democrat, Siding With the G.O.P., Is Removing Limits on Political Cash at ‘Breathtaking’ Speed
The Federal Election Commission has long done little more than reach deadlock, but an ascendant bloc of three Republicans and one Democrat has begun to unravel longstanding restraints.
Previews: The New Yorker Magazine – June 17, 2024
A Striking Setback for India’s Narendra Modi
The truly disquieting thought was that the cult of personality around the Prime Minister had become suffocating and seemingly impossible to pierce—until now. By Isaac Chotiner
A Journey to the Center of New York City’s Congestion Zone
After Governor Kathy Hochul’s flip-flop on congestion pricing, a cop reconsiders his retirement while inching his Lexus through snarled-up traffic on the F.D.R.
By Ben McGrath
How Liberals Talk About Children
Many left-leaning, middle-class Americans speak of kids as though they are impositions, or means to an end.
By Jay Caspian Kang
News: Far Right Gains In EU Elections, Macron Calls For ‘Snap’ French Election
The Globalist Podcasts (June 10, 2024): News from this weekend’s EU elections. Plus: Brics foreign ministers meet in Nizhny Novgorod, the latest on Rafah and how might the detainment of a French scholar in Russia further strain relations with the West?
The New York Times — Monday, June 10, 2024
Israel’s Euphoria Over Hostage Rescue May Be Fleeting
The operation conducted by Israel’s military to free four hostages resulted in a high death toll among Palestinians and has not resolved the challenges facing the Israeli government.
Hunter Biden Is on Trial, but All Eyes Are on the Biden Women
The women called to testify have at different times tried to support a man whose history of addiction continues to hit them with shrapnel.
46 Children Were Taken From Ukraine. Many Are Up for Adoption in Russia.
The New York Times traced how a web of officials and politicians aligned with President Vladimir V. Putin’s party carried out a campaign to permanently transfer Ukrainian children from Kherson.
The New York Review Of Books – June 20, 2024
Livelier Than the Living
In the Renaissance, reading became both a passion and a pose of detachment—for those who could afford it—from the pursuits of wealth and power.
A Marvelous Solitude: The Art of Reading in Early Modern Europe by Lina Bolzoni, translated from the Italian by Sylvia Greenup
Untold Futures: Time and Literary Culture in Renaissance England
Black Atlantics
The scholar Louis Chude-Sokei does the urgent work of reimagining the African diaspora as multiple diasporas.
Floating in a Most Peculiar Way by Louis Chude-Sokei
The Last “Darky”: Bert Williams, Black-on-Black Minstrelsy, and the African Diaspora by Louis Chude-Sokei
The Sound of Culture: Diaspora and Black Technopoetics by Louis Chude-Sokei
Africa Travel: The Top Ten Places To Visit In Namibia
The capital, Windhoek, and coastal town Swakopmund contain German colonial-era buildings such as Windhoek’s Christuskirche, built in 1907. In the north, Etosha National Park’s salt pan draws game including rhinos and giraffes.
Preview: Philosophy Now Magazine June/July 2024
The Search for Meaning
by Rick Lewis
A famous parable dating back to ancient India involves some blind monks encountering an elephant. The monks each touch just one part of the elephant, and afterwards they compare notes. One declares that the creature feels like a snake, another that it has a shape like a tree trunk and so on. Like many parables, you can interpret it in different ways, but it seems to be saying that even for something that is an objectively real part of the world, like an elephant, it is possible to have different subjective views of it, all of which may be valid.Luce Irigaray interviewed by Octave Larmagnac-Matheron and translated by Mélanie Salvi.
Philosophers Exploring The Good Life
Jim Mepham quests with philosophers to discover what makes a life good.
The Present Is Not All There Is To Happiness
Rob Glacier says don’t just live in the now.
What Is Life Worth?
Michael Allen Fox wonders whether life really is ‘a precious gift’.
Sunday Morning: Stories And News From Zürich, London, Milan And Basel
Monocle on Sunday, June 9, 2024: Juliet Linley and Gabe Bullard join Monocle’s editorial director, Tyler Brûlé, to discuss the weekend’s hottest topics.
We also speak to Monocle’s Europe editor at large, Ed Stocker, for the latest updates on the EU elections and Monocle’s editor in chief, Andrew Tuck, gives us the view from London. Plus: Art Basel CEO, Noah Horowitz, joins to discuss this year’s event.
The New York Times — Sunday, June 9, 2024
Israel Rescues 4 Hostages in Assault That Killed Scores of Gazans
The news was met with jubilation in Israel, where tensions over the hostages’ safety have been rising in recent months.
Trump Vows to Lower Prices. Some of His Policies May Raise Them.
Donald J. Trump has not released a detailed economic plan. But three of his key proposals would push prices up, economists say.
U.S. Confronts Failures as Terrorism Spreads in West Africa
American and French forces have been ordered out of several countries after a series of coups.
A Republican Election Clerk vs. Trump Die-Hards in a World of Lies
Cindy Elgan has overseen elections in rural Nevada without incident for 20 years, but now even her neighbors wonder if she’s part of “the deep state cabal.”
