Halle Berry hat das Memo erhalten.
Bei „Ein Tag unvernünftiger Gespräche“ Bei einer Konferenz im Getty Center in Los Angeles am Montag begeisterte der Star ein Publikum aus Fernseh- und Filmautoren, Hollywood-Managern und Aktivisten mit einer zutiefst persönlichen Episode: Vor etwa drei Jahren, als sie nach dem Sex mit ihrem damals Neuen unerträgliche Schmerzen verspürte Berrys Arzt diagnostizierte bei ihr „den schlimmsten Fall von Herpes, den er je gesehen hatte“, erinnert sie sich.
Co-Vorsitzender der Veranstaltung Kerry Washington hatte das
The Princess of Wales has announced tonight that she has been diagnosed with cancer aged 42 and is undergoing ‘preventative’ chemotherapy.
In a deeply personal, unprecedented and emotional video message, filmed at Windsor on Wednesday, Catherine revealed the news had come as a ‘huge shock’ and that she and William ‘have been doing everything we can to process and manage this privately for the sake of our young family’.
It came days after she was seen smiling with Prince William
In her recent book, Nihilistic Times: Thinking With Max Weber, the political theorist Wendy Brown offers a meditation on the political and academic ethos that many think has marked American society since Donald Trump’s election, but which she treats as longer in the making. We are living in nihilistic times, Brown argues, due to centuries of eroding religious authority over values, the inability of science and reason to provide successful alternatives, and the commercialization of contemporary life. The result … Read more
“The ‘past’ fails to stay in the past,” writes Christina Sharpe in Ordinary Notes. Instead, it hovers continually over the present. Sharpe, a writer and the Canada Research Chair in Black Studies in the Humanities at York University, has written three books about the legacies of chattel slavery. Her first, Monstrous Intimacies: Making Post-Slavery Subjects, examined the ways that Black bodies are made to bear the trace of “unfreedom” via “the sadomasochism of everyday black life,” while her second, … Read more
The following is a compilation of short excerpts from Dr. Jordan Peterson’s conversation with Matt Rife. In them, they discuss the intention behind Matt’s comedy, the critical aspect of timing, deflection as a defense mechanism, healing by exposure, cancel culture’s goal to garner attention, and laughter as evidence of help. You can listen to or watch the full podcast episode on DailyWire+.
Start time: 2:33 [et al.]
Time: 2:59
Jordan: One of the things
“Human history is littered with good leaders who stayed too long,” one reader argues.
Welcome to Up for Debate. Each week, Conor Friedersdorf rounds up timely conversations and solicits reader responses to one thought-provoking question. Later, he publishes some thoughtful replies. Sign up for the newsletter here.
Last week I asked readers to opine on whether Democrats should stick with
The Atlantic is today announcing the complete agenda, evening programming, and additional speakers for the 15th annual Atlantic Festival, taking place on Thursday, September 28, and Friday, September 29, at The Wharf in Washington, D.C. Newly announced are interviews with Secretary of State Antony Blinken, former Representative and 2024 Republican presidential candidate Will Hurd, former Representative Gabby Giffords, and Mira Murati, the chief technology officer of OpenAI; a night of live storytelling with Oscar-, Emmy-, and
Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York, is sharing several tricks she’s used over the years in her royal duties to avoid offending people during parties and other events.
“Politely,” Ferguson laughed when her “Tea Talks” podcast co-host entrepreneur Sarah Thomson asked the duchess on Wednesday what the proper etiquette is for trying to get out of a conversation with someone you’re tired of talking to at a party.
“Well, it depends which country you’re in, of course. There’s all different
Earlier this spring, I took the bus to the Moscone Center, in downtown San Francisco, where almost thirty thousand people had gathered for the annual Game Developers Conference (G.D.C.), which I was attending as a journalist. I had spent the previous few months out on maternity leave, and I was glad to return to work, to have meetings, to temporarily exit the domestic sphere. Participating in public life felt incredible, almost psychedelic. I loved making small talk with the bus
