| Annals of Inquiry Being in Time How much should we value the past, the present, and the future? By Paul Bloom | | | Daily Comment Richard Branson’s Plan to Beat Jeff Bezos to Outer Space The two billionaires have been duelling for years to make commercial space flights a reality. Now, on Sunday, Branson is going himself. By Nicholas Schmidle | | | Q. & A. Redefining Populism A political philosopher offers a new way of looking at Donald Trump, Narendra Modi, Jair Bolsonaro, and other right-wing leaders. By Isaac Chotiner | | | | | | The Front Row A Provocative Drama of Marriage, Friendship, and Solitude Hong Sang-soo’s “The Woman Who Ran” relies on disturbing ironies to approach the mightiest of subjects: the nature of happiness. By Richard Brody | | | Books The Strange Case of Ivor Gurney Composer, poet of the First World War, incurable psychiatric patient: Are we at last ready to understand this elusive figure’s interrupted idylls? By Anthony Lane | | | | | Personal History Brilliant Light On what would have been Oliver Sacks’s eighty-eighth birthday, revisit his 1999 memoir on wartime London and his “Uncle Tungsten,” who inspired Sacks’s boyhood obsession with the mysteries of chemistry. By Oliver Sacks | | | | | Daily Shouts The Myth of the Cast-Iron Pan A cast-iron pan is forged in the flames of a volcano, by the mighty god Hephaestus. By Jiji Lee and Laura Mishkin | | | Daily Cartoon Friday, July 9th By Yasin Osman | | | | | | |
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