Kultur & Ideen

Can’t commit to vegetarianism but want animals to suffer less? You’ve got options.

Editor’s note, November 1, 8 am ET: We’re bringing you some of our best-loved Your Mileage May Vary. The one below was originally published in August 2025. This unconventional advice column offers you a unique framework for thinking through moral dilemmas. It’s based on value pluralism: the idea that each of us has multiple values […]

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Gen Z can’t afford the culture war

Conventional wisdom holds that young voters are idealistic and socially progressive dreamers, while older voters are hard-headed, pragmatic, and much more attuned to pocketbook issues. Conventional wisdom, meet Gen Z. Between 2020 and 2024, voters in this cohort swung right by more than 20 percentage points — but now they’re boomeranging back away from President […]

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The Supreme Court could make it impossible to sue federal officers

Let’s say that you’re savagely beaten by a federal officer despite the fact that you committed no crime. Or maybe your home is ransacked by FBI agents who didn’t even bother to get a warrant. Or maybe you’re shot in cold blood by immigration officials engaged in a paramilitary occupation of your home city. The […]

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A MAGA whisperer on why Republicans can still win

With the midterms now upon us, polls continue to suggest that we’re headed for a blue wave election. One thing that might stop it is if Republican voters come out in big numbers on Election Day. But is MAGA even united behind their candidates? And do they have a plan to motivate a base that […]

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Trump makes one last attempt to get the Supreme Court to interfere with the midterms

Here’s a hot take: The outcome of the 2026 midterms is unlikely to turn on close races in California. California has no statewide races that are expected to be close, and it is a solid blue state that recently redrew its US House maps to maximize Democratic gains. So it’s a bit baffling that the […]

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Christopher Harding: Sometimes a man has to jump

Early​ in July 1942, people on Japan’s northernmost main island of Hokkaidō became aware that a man was rifling through their rubbish bins. This would have been peculiar behaviour under any circumstances, but the man was their prime minister. Tōjō Hideki was a little over half a year into an all-out war with the United States and Britain – to add to an older conflict still raging in China – and it was taking its toll.

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Lavinia Greenlaw: Two Poems

Sometimes We Are in the Same CityAfter Rilke/After TsvetaevaHalf a life half my life a half-lifewere/are you?Such immediate/such fittingrecognitionwe floated into place. What next/what...

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Miriam Dobson: Not all trees are useful

By the late 1600s, the most important commodity from Russia’s forests was no longer fur or fish; it was the trees themselves. The expanding Russian Empire required a naval fleet to defend itself: oaks, larch and pine were chopped down to build ships. Forests became a resource to be managed.

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Fraser MacDonald: Who owns the glen?

Girning about hydro power in Strathglass is a bit like moving to Soho and complaining about the noisy nightlife. This energy landscape isn’t ideal if you’re in search of wildness. For Kassabova, the present upheaval is a further instance of ‘industrial ways’ being imposed on native pastoralism. The history she gives is uncertain.

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Daniella Shreir: Short Cuts

The call to mobilisation began to spread at the start of September: first on TikTok, then across social media platforms via AI-generated graphics announcing ‘le retour des gilets jaunes’. The date has political resonance: on 17 October 1961, Maurice Papon ordered the Police Nationale to attack Algerians protesting in support of the FLN. This time, graffiti across Paris read: ‘Nous sommes les descendants des Algériens que vous n’avez pas noyés.’

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Anne Carson: 9 October

Yesterday I won the Nobel Prize.Odd day.

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James Meek: Across 8 Mile

Detroit is the largest city in Michigan, a swing state. To win the Senate, the Democrats need to hold on to the one Michigan seat (out of two) that is up for grabs, and have chosen a new candidate, Abdul El-Sayed, a moderate leftist in European terms, a ‘communist loser who hates Jews and Israel’ according to Trump, ‘very, very evil’, per J.D. Vance.

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Eyal Weizman: Necro-Economics

Gaza has been experiencing an old-fashioned scorched-earth campaign reminiscent of the Nakba of 1948 and no different from the settler-colonial genocides of previous centuries. Yet much of the outrage generated by Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor’s film NAZA concerns Israel’s use of artificial intelligence and other computational technologies to select targets and calculate how many people will be killed.

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13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. 774)

1. An Idea for Decorating your Bathroom “I’d like to share my grandma’s half bathroom. She calls it ‘the sitting room’ and she has been collecting little chairs for YEARS and adding them to the walls. Sometimes when I was a little girl I’d try to count them all and always lost track. There are […]

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13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. 775)

1. The Cholita Climbers of Bolivia Photographed by David Jácome The Cholita Climbers of Bolivia, or Las Cholitas Escaladoras Bolivianas, are a group of Indigenous, Aymara, women mountaineers who climb peaks in Latin America. They do not wear modern mountaineering clothing, preferring instead their traditional costumes including polleras, brightly colored, full, pleated skirts with many under skirts. They do wear helmets and boots and use […]

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13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol.776)

This week’s edition is dedicated to our readers in America. Happy 250, with love & courage from your friend in Paris. 1. One of America’s most recognisable corporate buildings is for sale Nearly three decades after it opened as the headquarters of the Longaberger Company, one of America’s most recognisable pieces of corporate architecture has […]

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13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. 777)

1. The Dutch Community Where People Live on Strips of Land in a Lake I had a look and you can rent them on Airbnb too. There’s a cluster of lakes all near Amsterdam or Utrecht with the skinny islands! Check out some homes for rent around here or here and also here. And here’s […]

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13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. 778)

1. A pink 18th century bastide above Cassis waiting to be restored One can dream . Five bedrooms; 227 sqm; 1,779 sqm garden; €2.79M, found on The Spaces. 2. She painted her late father’s passport into a memory capsule “I have been filling up the pages of my late father’s passport. Almost a decade after […]

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13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. 779)

1. Where & how NYC’s street signs are made Sturdy sheets of aluminum are stacked to nearly the ceiling inside this industrial shop where almost every New York City street sign is born. Even in a digital age, the Maspeth Central Shop in Queens is still cutting, printing and assembling more than 70,000 municipal signs […]

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13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol.780)

1. “Après le bal” (After the ball) – a micro 19th century art genre of its own What makes it unusually genre-like is that it isn’t merely “a woman after a party.” Across different artists, the same little narrative machine keeps appearing: evening dress still on, flowers or accessories beginning to come apart, a private […]

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13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. 781)

1. A Great name for a zine Print of the postcard for sale on eBay. 2. Imagine this was your front door In Provence, only 10 kilometres from Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, this village is made up of two hamlets around the remains of a 12th-century Cistercian abbey. The house’s facade overlooks the main square of the village […]

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The Marquis de Lafayette's Brother-in-Law Participated in Three Revolutionary Wars, Supporting American Independence but Brutally Suppressing an Uprising by Enslaved Africans in Haiti

Louis-Marie, Viscount de Noailles, served during the American, French and Haitian Revolutions. "He fights wherever France fights, because he's a soldier and he believes in France," a historian says

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From Slasher Films to Vampire Flicks, Horror Movies Are More Popular Than Ever. Relive the Genre's Scariest Moments—if You Dare—at a New Exhibition

The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures' latest show features nearly 350 props, costumes and artifacts from such films as "Psycho," "The Shining" and "Sinners"

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Arthur Conan Doyle Based Sherlock Holmes on a Real-Life Scottish Surgeon Who Used Deduction to Diagnose Patients and Investigate Crimes

A new book chronicles the exploits of Joseph Bell, an Edinburgh lecturer whose lessons sparked the creation of the world's most famous detective

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