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Damon Dahlen/Huffington Post/Getty Images I have never really been a fan of Jennifer Lawrence. One might even say that, over the past few years of her meteoric rise to fame, I have actively, enthusiastically disliked her . By actively disliked I mean something bordering dangerously on a kind of…

REX USA / Moviestore Collection, Hulton Archive / Getty Images, REX USA, Vera Anderson / WireImage What’s your favorite Jennifer Lawrence moment? When she tripped on the way to accept her Academy Award, or when the paparazzi snapped photos of her drinking Veuve Cliquot straight out of the bottle? Or…

“War Dogs” kind of sneaks up on the viewer, which is a weird thing to say about a movie that stars Jonah Hill and Miles Teller as the slimiest characters of their entire careers and was directed by Todd Phillips, the guy who made the “Hangover” trilogy . Not only is “War Dogs” a surprisingly…

It’s easy to roll your eyes at the “Suicide Squad” petition . In case you’ve been lucky enough to miss the news, fans of the new movie “Suicide Squad” have created an online movement to shut down aggregation site Rotten Tomatoes for posting predominantly negative reviews of their beloved film. Cue…

What makes the pages turn? Photo: Bobby Doherty/New York Magazine Recite a plot backward and you’ll discover some things. Try it with a classic you haven’t read in years. You remember the green light on the last page of The Great Gatsby , of course, and probably Gatsby’s corpse in the pool a chapter…

Domas 2016. gada 15. augustā Izdrukas versija Artis Buks: Kreisums Stokholmas sindroma važās Aizdomājos par iespējamo kreisās kustības atdzimšanu Latvijā, par ko laiku pa laikam paklīst baumas "jauno un nikno" aprindās – esot jāsaņemas un kaut kas jāmaina. Ik pa brīdim savācas kādas iniciatīvas…

Redzējumi Tetovējums – Mārtiņš Siliņš, http://tattoofrequency.tumblr.com/ 2016. gada 22. augustā Izdrukas versija Neraugoties uz tādiem par folkloru kļuvušiem sevis aprakstiem kā "kur divi latvieši, tur trīs partijas", diskusijas par kolektīvās atmiņas saturu un nācijas priekšstatu par sevi Latvijā,…

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Me time … ‘one piece of good news is that mindfulness can drive you mad’. Photograph: Alamy T here is no doubt that what everybody wants is happiness. The only problem is what being happy consists in, an issue that moral thinkers have never been able to agree on and probably never will. Is happiness…

How will we all keep busy when we only have to work 15 hours a week? That was the question that worried the economist John Maynard Keynes when he wrote his short essay “ Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren ” in 1930. Over the next century, he predicted, the economy would become so…

Intellectuals — a category that includes academics, opinion journalists, and think tank experts — are freaks. I do not mean that in a disrespectful way. I myself have spent most of my life in one of the three roles mentioned above. I have even been accused of being a “public intellectual,” which…

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Trump being swallowed by a crowd in Muscatine, Iowa. / Evan Guest “E lite opinion” is admittedly a baggy construct—whose opinion? which elite?—but thanks to the weird convulsions of Campaign 2016, we’ve been granted a precious opportunity to behold it in all its lush and fulsome glory. Seemingly as…

THE TERM “PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL” is a fount of confusion. We admire such persons for speaking the truth about the corruptions of politics, for explaining climate change to a world that would prefer a more convenient truth, or for their unblinking acknowledgment of the structural racism of our society.…

Pour scorn elsewhere. / Joanna Slodownik L ate capitalism is like your love life: it looks a lot less bleak through an Instagram filter. The slow collapse of the social contract is the backdrop for a modern mania for clean eating, healthy living, personal productivity, and “radical self-love”—the…

1. The Bank of England, founded in 1694, isn’t the oldest central bank in the world, an honor that belongs to Sweden’s Riksbank, founded a quarter-century earlier. But the “Old Lady of Threadneedle Street” arguably invented the art of central banking—the visible hand, operating through the money…

One Market Under God: Extreme Capitalism, Market Populism and the End of Economic Democracy , Thomas Frank. Doubeday, 414 pages, $26.00 Some years ago, a newly minted corporate lawyer attempted to explain to me the mysterious workings of the free market. His handiest analogy for the market's just…

Redzējumi Lielbritānijas avīžu pirmās lappuses 2016. gada 23. jūnijā 2016. gada 11. jūlijā Izdrukas versija Eiropas Savienība gribot piespiest visus vīriešus lietot standartizētus, viena izmēra prezervatīvus. Aizliegt bikšu rāvējslēdzējus. Aizliegt šautriņu spēli krogos. Aizliegt tirgot papīriņos…

My wife leans in . A year ago, after nine hours of labor, she received an epidural and immediately asked me to pass the iPad so she could send a note to work. I suggested that this time should be for us and for the little girl who was making her way into the world, but it’s hard to argue with a…

Is Donald Trump a white trash icon? His hair is as teasedand artificial as Dolly Parton’s; his eternally pursed lips recall Elvis’s,minus the sensuality; his orange skin suggests the kind of cosmetic mask thatTammy Faye Bakker once kept between herself and her viewers. Ten years ago, he evenwent so…

While paying homage to Marx for his profound understanding of “the laws of motion of the capitalist mode of production,” most contemporary economists argue that, nonetheless, his economic analysis cannot be of much service when it comes to the study of modern banking and big finance, since these are…

Pirmkārt, ekonomiskas problēmas: faktiski kopš 2008. gada Eiropa nespēj izkārpīties no ieilgušās krīzes; dažādās valstīs krīzes iespaidu jūt dažādi, taču nekur nav redzams uzplaukums un visur pietrūkst naudas. Otrkārt, "sabraukušo" migrantu problēma: viss sākās ar klusiem turku viesstrādniekiem un…

The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen Fourth Estate, 568 pp, £17.99, November 2001, ISBN 1 84115 672 8 Ghost World directed by Terry Zwigoff August 2001 Storytelling directed by Todd Solondz November 2001 Today there are only second acts in American lives. No generation to find itself interestingly…