Robert Francis Prevost, the first US-born pope, embodies Catholicism’s anti-nationalist ethos. Will he follow Pope Francis in confronting the resurgence of nativism in the US and abroad? Illustration by Richard A. Chance Sorry, this articles is available to subscriber...
University finances are structured to insulate education from the whims of politics — at the expense of students, workers, and the rest of us. Sorry, this articles is available to subscriber only. Click here to subscribe.
The top 10% of earners account for almost half of all consumer spending in the United States. Wealth concentration has made economic stability shockingly reliant on elite consumption. Illustration by Richard A. Chance Sorry, this articles is available to subscriber...
A shadowy multibillion-dollar industry has grown roots in the American justice system: third-party litigation funding, or TPLF, which allows financiers to invest in lawsuits by covering participants’ legal fees in exchange for a hefty portion of a potential payout....
Let’s face it — nobody saw 2024 coming.* Especially the Left. Didn’t see 2020 coming either. Everyone just keeps getting caught with their pants down. Why? Because we guess; we pontificate; we have hypotheses about shit. What we haven’t done? Put some skin in the...
Britain’s young people no longer want to be doctors, lawyers, or engineers. They just want to collect rent. Sorry, this articles is available to subscriber only. Click here to subscribe.
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Speculation isn’t the cause of our great stagnation — it’s how the system tries to outrun it. Illustration by Mark Pernice Sorry, this articles is available to subscriber only. Click here to subscribe.
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As history and literature are quick to remind us, many a get-rich-quick scheme has ended in sorrow. Sorry, this articles is available to subscriber only. Click here to subscribe.
In the climate fiction novel The Ministry for the Future, Kim Stanley Robinson imagines a tomorrow in which an international governing body established under the Paris Agreement ensures that present-day human actions take into account their effects on future...
A Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg satire of mainstream film’s IP problem — in which everything is an adaptation of something else — fails to excuse or address their own extensive IP crimes. Sorry, this articles is available to subscriber only. Click here to...