Columbia’s Campus in Crisis

Plus: stunting with Ryan Gosling; the hedge fund powering journalism; and coming back to life at the Venice Biennale. View in browser | Update your preferences Thursday, May 2, 2024 In today’s newsletter, the police and the protesters, and then: • Can a hedge fund finance the news? • Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt get explosive • Coming back to life at the Venice Biennale A Campus in Crisis Dissent and defiance at Columbia’s pro-Palestine protests. Photograph by Nina Berman The photographer Nina Berman, who teaches at the Columbia Journalism School, has spent decades documenting occasions of dissent: labor strikes, Black Lives Matter protests, reproductive-rights rallies. In the past weeks, such scenes broke out within the gates of the campus where she works—and she was there, positioned inconspicuously in the crowd, with her camera. Introducing this collection of Berman’s photographs, Jelani Cobb, a New Yorker staff writer and the dean of the Journalism School, describes the moments of activism, reflection, and conflict that the images contain, and the vital role they currently play, and will play in the future, in helping to make sense of what is happening, and why. Berman is capturing history “one five-hundredth of a second at a time.” See the images Support The New Yorker’s award-winning journalism. Subscribe today » From the News Desk Q. & A. How Much Aid Is Actually Reaching Gazans? The chief economist of the U.N.’s World Food Programme on imminent famine and what’s needed to avoid it. By Isaac Chotiner Dept. of Disruption Annals of Communications Is Hunterbrook Media a News Outlet or a Hedge Fund? The hybrid media-finance company wants to monetize investigative journalism in the public interest. Is it a visionary game changer or a cynical ploy? By Clare Malone Culture Dept. The Current Cinema “The Fall Guy” Is Gravity-Defying Fun, in Every Sense Starring Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt, this action-comedy about a stuntman, by the stuntman turned director David Leitch, sticks its landings, but don’t expect characterization. By Richard Brody Cultural Comment “Challengers” Is Essentially a Well-Shot Commercial Because the film has so little to say, viewers are free to simply focus on the vibes—which happen to be the area where Luca Guadagnino, its director, has most distinguished himself. By Tyler Foggatt New in The New Yorker Store! Check out limited-edition tote bags and more, featuring art by celebrated contributors including Saul Steinberg and George Booth. Visit the Store » Editor’s Pick The Art World The Dead Rise at the Venice Biennale Stifled by a weird and desperate present, the show finds some life in the treasures of the past. By Jackson Arn Plus: Can’t make it to Venice? Our critic Jackson Arn has written recently about some art that can be explored right at home. He reviews a new biography of Keith Haring, an artist whose “pictures are just there, and everywhere.” Arn also offers some movie recommendations, including the lean but indelible filmography of the actor John Cazale and the early-nineties heist-thriller “Point Break.” Critics at Large: Sports movies like Luca Guadagnino’s “Challengers” and last year’s “The Iron Claw” offer Zeitgeisty takes on masculinity. Do they signal a shift in the storied genre? Listen and follow » Fun & Games Dept. Mini Crossword A Smallish Puzzle Chief Justice appointed in 2005: seven letters. By Mollie Cowger Shouts & Murmurs America!: A Chaos Demon from the Underworld Shares His Tips on Streamlining Congress I’m truly inspired by the surreal dysfunction of your Congress—but isn’t it a little over the top? By Ali Fitzgerald Daily Cartoon Thursday, May 2nd By Barbara Smaller Name Drop: Can you guess the identity of a notable person—contemporary or historical—in six clues? Play a quiz from our archive » P.S. Trump is hardly the first to allegedly pay for someone’s silence. Before him came other American politicians—Hamilton, Jefferson, Harding (who was protecting his friend Jerry the Penis)—and actors and entertainers, not to mention Epstein and Weinstein and so on. Last year, Zach Helfand offered an abridged and sordid history of hush money. “For about as long as people have been saying stuff,” he notes, “others have been paying them not to.” Today’s newsletter was written by Ian Crouch. What did you think of today’s newsletter? Let us know. If you like the daily newsletter, browse more New Yorker newsletters. You’re receiving this e-mail because you signed up for the daily newsletter from The New Yorker. Manage your preferences | View our Privacy Policy | Unsubscribe Copyright © Condé Nast 2024. One World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007. All rights reserved.