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I Was Sure I Knew Why New Yorkers Blast Their Music. I Was Wrong.

admin2 May 2025

You’re reading the John McWhorter newsletter, for Times subscribers only. A Columbia University linguist explores how race and language shape our politics and culture. Get it with a Times subscription.Hearing people play their cellphones without ...

‘He’s Often Working Backward From a Conclusion’: Three Opinion Writers on Kennedy

admin28 April 2025

Alexandra Sifferlin, a health and science editor for Times Opinion, hosted a written conversation with the Opinion columnist Ross Douthat and the Opinion writers Jessica Grose and David Wallace-Wells about Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s first two months as ...

Nothing Lasts. How Do We Face It?

admin23 April 2025

BEAUTY: THE TRADITION OF IMPERMANENCE “SEE THE TREE there? It’s turning red, right?” I looked to see what Kotaro Nishibori, the last manufacturer of paper umbrellas in Kyoto, was pointing at. On our left was a line of cherry trees, their leaves ...