Tag: old age
Why Biden’s Age Is An Unavoidable Conversation
“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 Cost of Making ‘The Iliad’ Modern
Early in Norman Mailer’s Harlot’s Ghost, perhaps the greatest novel about an American bureaucracy, the narrator describes a most unbureaucratic figure, a Maine fisherman named Snowman Dyer who died in 1870 in his sister’s home. Dyer once “bartered five lobsters for a small Greek tome that belonged to a classics scholar at Harvard.” The English translation, which was printed between the lines of Greek, so intrigued Dyer that he decided to read the original. Having no teacher other than
What Are Friendship Researchers Like With Their Friends?
Each installment of “The Friendship Files” features a conversation between The Atlantic’s Julie Beck and two or more friends, exploring the history and significance of their relationship.
This week she talks with two friends who also happen to study friendship. They met at a conference back when very few relationship scholars were focusing on the topic, and became both friends and professional collaborators. They talk about what they’ve learned from their research and how they’ve applied those
Retirement the Margaritaville Way | The New Yorker
I didn’t. Murphy was now crying. He turned away to collect himself. Changes in attitude. After a few moments, he apologized and introduced me to his friends. One of them was his neighbor from across the street in what was known as Phase 2—the second neighborhood to have been built. (Phase 5, consisting of six hundred and forty-one homes, is now fully developed, and half sold, and lots are for sale in Phase 6. There is room and approval for