Mark Zuckerberg Doesn’t Know What the First Amendment Is For

Plus: The 1983 Beirut bombing, and the current U.S. retreat from Syria. View in browser | Update your preferences Our Columnists Mark Zuckerberg Doesn’t Know What the First Amendment Is For The Facebook C.E.O., who testifies before the House Financial Services Committee today, is symptomatic of our collective refusal to think about speech and the media in complicated ways. By Masha Gessen Our Columnists The 1983 Beirut Bombing, and the Current U.S. Retreat from Syria Thirty-six years ago, the United States abruptly withdrew from Beirut. The collapse of that mission resonates as U.S. Special Forces soldiers pull out of Syria now. By Robin Wright Our Columnists The New Economics: Data, Inequality, and Politics In “Unbound,” Heather Boushey illustrates how some economists are returning to their discipline’s roots by studying the underlying factors that bias economic outcomes. By John Cassidy Daily Comment Justin Trudeau’s Victory Was Narrow, but Still Significant The Canadian elections were what they ought to be: a spectrum of parties fighting for specific ideas and regional interests and arriving at a result that reflects the interests of the country. By Adam Gopnik Dispatch Joshua Wong’s Long Campaign for the Future of Hong Kong The onetime figurehead of Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement has evolved from defiant teen-age protester to international lobbyist and emerging politician. By Megan K. Stack PAID POST “[An] engaged and absorbing novel.” —The New York Times Book Review “With a spellbinding narrative and its exquisitely accurate evocation of two eras, Barbara Kingsolver’s novel is itself a shelter of sorts. One doesn’t want to leave it.” —Wall Street Journal START READING NOW Culture and More Cultural Comment Should We Pay to Enter Bookstores? There must be a way to level the playing field a bit between brick-and-mortar shops and cheaper, more convenient online retailers, ideally sooner than later. By Howard Fishman The Front Row How the Satire of “Jojo Rabbit” Backfires Taika Waititi’s movie is conspicuously about the presence of good Nazis who, at critical moments, conducted their own forms of resistance from inside the institutions of power. By Richard Brody Cultural Comment The N.B.A. and China and the Myths of Sports Diplomacy The league did not make a play for the Chinese market because its owners wanted to use the game as a vehicle for world peace. By Louisa Thomas Humor from The New Yorker Daily Shouts My Ten-Year-Old Self Does Standup You ever wonder why grandmas have the worst cookies? It’s, like, they’re not even cookies. Right? It’s, like, they’re little lessons. By Emma Rathbone Daily Cartoon Wednesday, October 23rd By Johnny DiNapoli Sign up for more newsletters from The New Yorker. Visit The New Yorker shop. Question about your subscription? Contact Customer Care. New Yorker digital subscribers get unlimited access to everything on newyorker.com. Log in to your account here. We’d love your feedback on this newsletter. Please send your thoughts and suggestions to TNYinbox@newyorker.com. This e-mail was sent to you by The New Yorker. To ensure delivery to your inbox (not bulk or junk folders), please add our e-mail address, NewYorker@newsletters.newyorker.com, to your address book. View our Privacy Policy Unsubscribe Copyright © Condé Nast 2019. One World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007. All rights reserved.