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Barry Blitt’s “Red, White, and Kinda Blue”
For the cover of the May 11 & 18, 2026, special issue, themed around America’s 250th birthday, the cartoonist Barry Blitt portrays George Washington, the country’s first President, caught...
The Artist Who Made America Look Like a Promised Land
Church’s first important painting, completed in 1846, was “Hooker and Company Journeying Through the Wilderness from Plymouth to Hartford, in 1636,” which depicts early Pilgrims (among them his ancestor...
Sohrab Hura’s Frozen Vision of Kashmir
If Hura had assembled “Snow” in 2019, he would have chosen only photos like these: lateral and coded, often with no humans in them. His taste for the direct...
Jonathan Swift Wrote His Own Epitaph. Was It a Joke?
There was one text that Kenny thought was particularly relevant to his search for the truth about the epitaph. In 1732, Swift completed a poem titled “Verses on the...
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She Dressed “The Devil Wears Prada” ’s Miranda Priestly and Came Back for Seconds
I want to talk about “The Devil Wears Prada 2.” There were so many looks in it that I don’t know where to begin. I think a lot of...
7 mindset shifts that turn a founder into a real leader
If you’ve been building for a while, you’ve probably felt the shift creeping up on you. What used to be about shipping faster, closing your first customers, and proving...
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It’s Possible to Learn in Our Sleep. Should We?
What we learn in our sleep can apparently influence our behavior, too. In 2014, the neuroscientist Anat Arzi was a graduate student at the Weizmann Institute of Science. She...
Trust Is Your Brand Before You Scale
Before a brand is a brand, it’s trust. That’s my stance, and it guides how I build and invest. If customers don’t trust you, they don’t buy—no matter how...
7 behaviors that make top talent actually stay
If you have ever watched a great hire quietly disengage, you know how unsettling it feels. Nothing “breaks” overnight. They still show up to standups, still hit deadlines, still...
8 shifts that happen when you start believing you deserve the win
You can usually tell when a founder is technically capable but internally unconvinced. They hesitate on pricing, over-explain their product, and quietly assume the market is smarter than they...
