| | | |  The New Yorker Interview Jonathan Haidt Wants You to Take Away Your Kid’s PhoneThe social psychologist discusses the “great rewiring” of children’s brains, why social-media companies are to blame, and how to reverse course. By David Remnick | | | | | From the News Desk | The Sporting Scene The Baltimore Oriole Who Looks Like a Cherub and Swings the Bat Like a Legend-to-BeJackson Holliday has had perfect swinging form since he was three years old. As a major leaguer, though, he’s still in his infancy. By Louisa Thomas | | The Political Scene Podcast The Morality Play Inside Trump’s Courtroom“This idea of the old ‘Teflon Don’ is just finished,” Evan Osnos says. “The guy is now a creature of the court.” With Susan B. Glasser, Jane Mayer, and Evan Osnos | | | | | From the Archive |  A Critic at Large When the Earth MovedFrom 2013: What happened to the environmental movement? By Nicholas Lemann | | | | | | | Culture Dept. |  Director’s Commentary Julio Torres on the Rocky Relationship That Drives “Problemista”The director dissects a key scene that establishes the dynamic between his character, who is embroiled in the U.S.’s immigration systems, and Tilda Swinton’s “temperamental art-world lady,” down to the meanings of their hair styles. By The New Yorker | | | | |  Photo Booth In Justine Kurland’s Photographs, a Mother and Son Hit the Road Some of the portraits in “This Train” have an Edenic quality to them, as if Kurland is asking: What if my kid and I were the only two people in the world? By Naomi Fry |  The Food Scene The Return, Again, of the Power Lunch Four Twenty Five, a luxe new dining room from the mega-restaurateur Jean-Georges Vongerichten, takes square aim at the expense-account crowd. By Helen Rosner | |  Poems “Hyacinth” “I don’t know if my father forgave the years / I did not love him.” By Catherine Barnett |  Poems “Vision” “All that had been severed / was married back to itself.” By Tracy K. Smith | | | | | Fun & Games Dept. | Shouts & Murmurs Stories from the Trump BibleAnd Jesus said to Pontius Pilate, “This trial is very unfair. You are a corrupt judge, and your wife is a very nasty woman.” By Bruce Headlam and Stephen Sherrill | | | | |  | Name Drop: Can you guess the identity of a notable person—contemporary or historical—in six clues? Play our trivia game » | | | | | P.S. Eleven years before she published “Silent Spring”—and kicked off a new kind of environmental movement—Rachel Carson wrote a series of stories for The New Yorker profiling the sea. In this informative yet lyrical edition, she elucidates the relationship among wind, sun, and moon—and how it makes waves. She must have watched the waters closely, but, as she notes, she was not the only one: “An astonishing list of the perverse and freakish doings of the sea can be compiled from the records of the keepers of lights on lonely ledges at sea or on rocky headlands exposed to the full strength of the surf.” | | | | | | | |
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