Новости за 01.02.2022

The self-complacent isolation of a great people has never received a ruder shock than that which was dealt to the American nation by the outbreak of the European war. We have long been congratulating ourselves on something more than an official independence of Europe. We considered ourselves free in a finer and a deeper sense—free from the poison of inherited national antipathies, free from costly and distracting international entanglements, free from a more than incidental reliance on foreign markets for the sale of our products... Читать дальше...

The other day I amused myself by slipping into a recitation at the suburban high school where I had once studied as a boy. The teacher let me sit, like one of the pupils, at an empty desk in the back of the room, and for an hour I had before my eyes the interesting drama of the American school as it unfolds itself day after day in how many thousands of classrooms throughout the land. I had gone primarily to study the teacher, but I soon found that the pupils, after they had forgotten my presence, demanded most of my attention. Читать дальше...

For the last five years, the publishing industry’s most compelling story has been a mystery. Somebody had been going to extraordinary lengths to steal manuscripts—mostly, but not always, unpublished ones—from agents, publishers, authors, and literary scouts across three continents by creating an extraordinary number of fake email addresses. The person behind the scheme had an impressive facility for languages (though his English, oddly, wasn’t spectacular), as well as a palpable brazenness; a... Читать дальше...

In February 2020, President Joe Biden made major pledges on the campaign trail about whom he would choose for various high-level posts. “I commit that if I’m elected president and have an opportunity to appoint someone to the court, I’ll appoint the first Black woman to the court,” he declared. “Secondly, if I’m elected president, my Cabinet, my administration will look like the country. And I commit that I’ll pick a woman to be vice president. There are a number of women who are qualified to... Читать дальше...

What exactly does it mean to be free? “Freedom” was the mantra of the Cold War, at least on the Western side of the Iron Curtain. In the American mind, it is most often associated with the freedoms guaranteed in the Constitution, the country’s secular bible: freedom of the press, of assembly, and so on. But there are other kinds of freedom, too, the material kinds that the United States so vehemently refuses to guarantee: freedom from hunger and poverty, freedom from preventable illness, freedom from homelessness... Читать дальше...

In its frenzied rush to uncover as much about Donald Trump’s attempt to overturn the 2020 election as possible, the January 6 committee has already found a wealth of valuable, disturbing information detailing just how close the country came to a coup. It has received “firsthand” testimony from people who were with Donald Trump as rioters stormed the Capitol and texts from Fox News hosts such as Sean Hannity and Trump’s own children imploring the president’s chief of staff to step in and stop the madness. Читать дальше...