Three hours ago, Elon Musk posted five blunt words: “Keynes was a demon.” He was responding to Balaji Srinivasan’s line that the end of Western Keynesianism would be bigger than the collapse of Soviet communism. It was not a viral moment or a market-moving event. It was something more revealing: a small window into how […]
Nicolás Maduro started off as a bus driver before becoming the most powerful man in Venezuela, a trajectory so improbable that it once passed for proof of revolutionary possibility. In the end, he had to be kidnapped and extracted by plane, a final inversion that captured both the elevation he achieved and the emptiness of […]
“We’re a planet of six billion ninnies living in a civilisation built by a few thousand savants,” Scott Adams once said — and beneath the Dibert creator’s misanthropy is a disarmingly accurate description of how the modern world works. Most of us don’t invent, build, or discover anything of world-changing importance. We live inside systems […]
Meghan Markle played the game of Mahjong in her Netflix series A centuries-old Chinese game called mahjong is having a modern revival across continents, from luxury cruise ships and trendy hotel lounges to Meghan Markle’s Netflix series.In the sixth episode of her docuseries With Love, the Duchess of Sussex invites friends for a cosy game […]
