Being in Time

Plus: the billionaire race to outer space, redefining populism, and the strange case of Ivor Gurney. View in browser | Update your preferences Friday, July 9, 2021 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 Culture and More 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 On This Day 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 Humor from The New Yorker 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 You’re receiving this e-mail because you signed up for The Daily from The New Yorker. Was this e-mail forwarded to you? Sign up. Unsubscribe | Manage your e-mail preferences | Send newsletter feedback | View our Privacy Policy Copyright © Condé Nast 2021. One World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007. All rights reserved.