The fall of men at the NYRB
Surely #MeToo should also be about educating men in their 60s like Ian Buruma rather than driving them out
The Battle of Chile and the wonder of movie theaters
The Battle of Chile is a great film that was made more powerful by the sound of anguish in the audience
Banning the Indian rupee notes really was dumb
The cash ban was floated in a Tamil action film, of all places, yet somehow became real policy
Ta-Nehisi Coates is wrong about Trump voters
True, for many race defined this campaign but stating that bluntly won’t win them back
Police shootings database
Whatever the cause the sheer number of dead should impress us: 813 so far this year with weeks to go
Robert Silvers was our greatest editor
Robert Silvers died this week but his New York Review of Books brought me years of pleasure
Tracking the incompetent Trump cabinet
Bush’s team bungled Hurricane Katrina but they were professionals compared to Trump’s gang
Warrior-gymnasts in Tonkin, Vietnam, 1909
French overlords in colonial-era Vietnam make the locals do ridiculous things
The generosity of the Quebec City eulogy
After the massacre at a Quebec City mosque, a lesson in how to defeat hate
Homs, Syria after five years of war
Drone video footage shows there’s no life left in Syria’s third largest city
Charles de Gaulle campaign poster
After the attacks by Islamic State in Paris the old slogan “With You, For You” is fitting
Bashar al-Assad stonewalls Charlie Rose
Charlie Rose gets in a theater of the absurd debate with Assad and loses
The amazing marginalia of In Search of Fatima
A reader hostile to everything lets her feelings be known
The New York Times shuts down India Ink
The Times gives up being local everywhere, returns to the parochial interests of a US audience
Where the non-Christian Americans are
Christians abound but that does not make the US a Christian country
Why Narendra Modi is a bad choice for India
India is too internally diverse to privilege any single group within society, but Modi will try
98.1% of Egyptians vote for the Sisi constitution
By comparison, Mubarak only claimed 88.6% of Egyptians voted for him in his last election in 2005
Two constitutions, one triumph
Tunisia got it right with their new constitution while Egypt reverted to old authoritarian habits
Dead, but right, in Beirut
Hezbollah can’t kill everyone in Lebanon who believes it should give up its weapons
Interview with History by Oriana Fallaci, 1976
Italian journalist Oriana Fallaci lost the plot at the end but she was a wonder in her prime
Why hatred is easier than reason
Passion — even when wrong — stirs more than reason, which is why prejudice is so powerful
Prayer of Fear by Mosireen
The media collective Mosireen perfectly captures the current moment in Egypt