Новости за 12.02.2022

In recent weeks, podcaster Joe Rogan’s commitment to disseminating vaccine misinformation has caused Spotify, the streaming service that exclusively hosts his wares, no end of self-torture. Rocker Neil Young, unwilling to continue being associated with the platform because of Rogan, took his leave; a number of other musicians followed suit. More recently, Spotify has deleted scores of old episodes of The Joe Rogan Experience in which the host used racial slurs (for which Rogan issued an apology). Читать дальше...

There is no better cure for that harassing sense of poverty than a casual study of our statistics of wealth. The Census Bureau has recently reported that the wealth of the United States for the year 1912 was over one hundred and eighty-seven billions—thousands of millions—of dollars. It is a sum literally staggering, an aggregate immensely, one might almost say immeasurably greater than that possessed by any other nation at any time in history. Moreover, this wealth is stupendously growing. Within twelve years... Читать дальше...

On Friday, both sides in Sarah Palin’s defamation suit against The New York Times rested, leaving the former Alaska governor to rue the testimony she offered a day earlier, which appeared to undercut her case in inevitable, hilarious, Palinesque fashion. How the jury weighs her performance may factor heavily into the trial’s outcome. In short order, we will know whether Palin flubbed her big opportunity on the stand, torpedoing the case against the paper. But we know right now that she more than capably accomplished another goal... Читать дальше...