Tag: Wrong
Washington Is Getting China Wrong
Evergrande Group, one of China’s largest property developers, is tottering on the brink of bankruptcy. Its founder, Hui Ka Yan, is scrounging to find the cash to meet payments on the $300 billion his company owes. Beijing has warned local officials to prepare for possible fallout if the gargantuan firm collapses. Around the world, financial analysts are wondering if Evergrande is China’s “Lehman moment,” the starting gun for a destructive wave of defaults that could take down the
Steven Pinker Thinks Your Sense of Imminent Doom Is Wrong
In our uncertain age, which can so often feel so dark and disturbing, Steven Pinker has distinguished himself as a voice of positivity. This has been a boon for him, as his books, like “The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined” (2011) and “Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress” (2018), have been best sellers and elevated the Harvard cognitive psychologist, who is 66, beyond academia and into the realm of the public intellectual.
Neu im Taschenbuch: “Nothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why” und “Billion Dollar Loser”
WAS VON MIR BLEIBT, ist DEIN, von Stephanie Scott. (Anker, 352 S., $16.) „Jedes Kapitel dieses hinreißenden Romans“, das auf einem Mordprozess in Tokio aus dem Jahr 2010 basiert, bei dem ein „Breaker-Oberer“ von einem Ehemann angeheuert wurde, um seine Frau zu verführen, ist „elegant kurz und mit kaum zurückgehaltenen Emotionen aufgeladen“, schrieb Tobias Gray in seiner Rezension . Doch Scotts Thema ist „weitreichend“: dass das Gesetz die Unschuldigen nicht schützt und „das Wichtigste ist, das Wissen über uns selbst
What’s Wrong With the Los Angeles Lakers
The Los Angeles Lakers braced for a season of strain after the shortest off-season in league history.
They did not anticipate this.
The Lakers did not envision long stretches without both LeBron James and Anthony Davis, and a regular-season slog that is testing them in new ways after the rigors of being confined within the N.B.A.’s restricted-access campus at Walt Disney World for three months last summer. James, Davis and Co. began the 2020-21 season as overwhelming title favorites, having