Absolutely masterful interview on Gaza of Dominique De Villepin, former Prime Minister of France, who famously led France's opposition to the Iraq war and who, IMHO is the best diplomat the West has produced in decades. This is so important, so incredibly well argued, that I

A.A. war is nothing but what you know and have tasted, it is not some vague, embellished tale. when you ignite it, you awaken it disgraceful, and it harms when you provoke it, till it blazes. it grinds you like a millstone with its heavy weight.

“Play The Beatles’ music to your kids… The world can’t afford to forget about [them]…” Strong agree with Seán Ono Lennon, collecting a Grammy for Now And Then on behalf of his father’s timeless group. Great music lasts forever, if we let it.

If you're a billionaire, then you'll barely notice a few thousand dollars a year in higher prices at the store from these Trump tariffs - plus you can count on him to get you another big tax break for the wealthy. But for everyone else, this is a big deal, and a bad one.

This c. 2,000 year-old Roman mosaic glass bowl shows the past was lived in glorious technicolour! V&A Museum 📷 by me #Archaeology 🏺

I asked claude 4 opus to express its inner experience through art instead of words. here's what it made from scratch in one shot 🔊

OH MY GOD.

On June 2, 1967, The Beatles released Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. It remains the biggest recording event in rock history. "The closest that Western civilization has come to unity since the Congress of Vienna in 1815 was the week that the Sgt. Pepper album was

Carlos Alcaraz down triple match point.

CARLOS ALCARAZ WON THIS MATCH

There’s cool, there’s very cool and then there’s Paul McCartney at the Sgt Pepper launch party.

Good Vibrations is a symphony. This clip of Brian Wilson and The Wrecking Crew recording the track is outer worldly. Proof that all he needed were just musicians to play his material. He is The Beach Boys.

Mamdani: I also think that we have found exactly the way to defeat organized money, which is organized people

If you must play one sport, make it tennis "At its essence, tennis is about moving through space correctly, says John Ratey, a psychiatrist at Harvard Medical School and the author of Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain. Receiving the ball, you gauge

Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion. Baruch Spinoza

I think about this student's email every day.

Cette vidéo m'a fait tellement mal au cœur, parlez en les freres notre peuple meurt #Maroc

🇲🇦Un jeune homme s'interpose pour protéger un vieil homme de l'arrestation lors d'une manifestation pacifique. Un geste de courage et d'humanité face à la répression. #Maroc #GenZ212

They killed this one

College enrollment is collapsing across America at the same time that birth rates are collapsing. This is a huge problem. Yes, the "wage premium" is real. But it's also hollowing out entire cities built around a university. Great piece from Kyla Scanlon. theargumentmag.com/p/what-happens…