Culture

A modern Orwellian tale

What if calling someone stupid was a crime?

Lionel Shriver imagines cancel culture going to even greater extremes

The sports page

Fury vs Usyk is the biggest fight this century

Boxing’s prioritisation of money over competition is hurting the sport

Back Story

Jürgen Klopp’s masterclass in how to win—and lose

Two gestures capture the Liverpool manager’s method: the fist pump and the hug

Snap judgments

A renowned, mysterious photographer of the American civil war

“Double Exposure” examines the enduring work of Timothy O’Sullivan

Originalist to the core

How did the Founding Fathers want Americans to behave?

A journalist tries to figure out what it means to “live constitutionally”

Honey, will you be home for dinner?

#Tradwives, the real housewives of the internet, have gone viral

Why social-media users are riveted by the domestic toil of homemakers

A literary life

Alice Munro was the English language’s Chekhov

The Nobel prizewinning short-story writer died on May 13th, aged 92

Money and faith

God™: an ageing product outperforms expectations

An economist tries to explain religion

Mass tourism

Venice’s new admission fee cannot curb overtourism

It is too low, and there are too many exemptions

Back Story

The trial of Donald Trump, considered as courtroom drama

Sensational witnesses, high stakes—it has the classic elements. Sort of

The sports page

Caitlin Clark will always be underpaid

But the female basketball players who come after her won’t be

Death and a thousand nuts

What strategies actually work to fight dying?

A prominent biologist tackles a morbid topic