Serious investment thinking that doesn’t take itself too seriously.
The 2024 Olympic Dream lasted two months. In Paris, there was magic in the air. As if by magic, even grumbling – a national sport in France – vanished. Twelve months later, central Paris is seeing clear changes in the public space – an Olympic legacy promoted by the city authorities as “Paris...
I seldom invite friends to come to church with me and, after Sunday’s morning service that was so deeply moving, I don’t know why. If you knew a great bakery, you’d tell people....
I got to spend last week in California, seeing people, doing things, from Irvine up to Sacramento, and people kept trying to get me to go with them to vineyards, though I no...
I sympathized with our President’s proposing that we run all the Palestinians out of Gaza and take ownership and turn it into a luxury resort. I’ve had crazy ideas myself but...
Most aphorisms are self-evident, such as “A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush” and the one about glass houses and throwing stones and the mice playing when the cat is...
Former players criticising current ones is a dangerous game. Alex Hartley’s cold-shouldering by some of the pettier England players for basically telling the truth reminds me of...
When Chip Carter spoke about his father, Jimmy, at a memorial service in Atlanta and told how, when his dad noticed the boy got a poor mark in Latin, Jimmy studied Latin so that...
Something’s happened in the world of music; it is now almost impossible for new artists to build visual recognition and their brands. The reason is simple: TikTok, and its...
You could say I've lived an interesting life, and come to think of it, I have. I wrote this story for the Village Voice back in 2016, when Dylan was awarded the Nobel Prize in...
It’s been a couple months since the New York City Council legalized jaywalking in town and nobody has noticed this because everybody was doing it anyway. New Yorkers have been...