“Leftist Turned Trump Defender
Renowned Biologist Turned HIV Denialist”
From obituary headlines that have appeared in the New York Times since 2020.
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- “We all know what happens when an apparel company or a beverage company goes out of business. You’re no longer able to find those drinks in the grocery store or get a hold of those jeans you love. But what happens if a cloud-storage company goes bankrupt?”
- “The manner in which Goetz’s story transpired…would repeat itself with every spasm of racial violence that took place in the years to come.” @kevlloydlozano on the city that Bernie Goetz made.
- “Rather than a simple cure-all for the ills of the continent—or the world—Esperanto was a necessary precondition for the kind of ‘mutual understanding’ that might some day beget peace, Kasati believed.” —Katie Thornton
- “American society—grotesquely unequal and divided, helpless before its demagogic and oligarchic manipulators—is no longer a stranger to the dark ambiguities of lopsided economic progress.” —Pankaj Mishra
- Golf carts $1,031,215 Peanut butter $457, 438 Calculators $379,897 From expenditures made by the U.S. Department of Defense in September 2025.
- A cover from Rasht, Iran, from the book The Atlas of World Embroidery: A Global Exploration of Heritage and Styles, by Gillian Vogelsang-Eastwood, which was published in February by Princeton University Press. Courtesy the Philadelphia Museum of Art harpers.org/harpersartdesk/
- “We could try to pray or behave in certain ways to influence their winds, but, in the end, the weather wasn’t up to us. God had the final say.” @wyatt_williams on the battle over weather modification and the theology of meteorology.
- Degas represented “Wow!” in the old days (5)
- “Senator Dan Sullivan enjoined voters not to vote for his rival, also named Dan Sullivan, in the bid for his congressional seat; The U.S. president endorsed a New Jersey representative whose whereabouts have been unknown for months.”
- “Recent surveys by the Pew Research Center have found that half of Americans are more concerned than excited about the increased use of AI in daily life; a similar proportion believe that it will worsen our ability to think creatively and form meaningful relationships…”
- “There would be less dirt to clean, probably, if everyone knew in advance that they couldn’t leave the cleaning to someone else.” From “Dirty Work Should Be Shared,” which appeared in the December 1982 issue.
- “Georges Bataille was right: excess is the accursed share of abundance, and no one can afford to bear it.” Simon Paré-Poupart on the life of the garbageman.
