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Over the past month and a half, the Formula One racing world has been roiled by reports that Red Bull team principal Christian Horner, winner of 13 world titles, sexually harassed an employee of Red Bull (now revealed to be his personal assistant, Fiona Hewitson) by sending her sexual messages and images, including, as it seems, a picture of his penis. As the feminist machinery springs into action, the case illuminates, once again, how murky many harassment allegations really are—which may not be enough to save Horner, who is once again under investigation.

High-jumping legend Dick Fosbury passed away over the weekend. Fosbury won the Olympic gold medal in 1968, but is better known for an innovation that changed the sport: the “Fosbury flop,” i.e. going over the bar backward. There are so many detail-rich obituaries of Fosbury, that I don’t want to retread that ground. Instead, I just want to share two aspects of Fosbury’s breakthrough that I find striking. First: Fosbury’s innovative technique makes perfect physics sense.

If thou would’st master care and pain, Unfold this book and read and read again Its blessed leaves, whereby thou soon shalt see The past, the present, and the days to be With opened eyes; and all delight, all grief, Shall be like smoke, as empty and as brief. This epigram is found at the end of a Vatican manuscript of the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius. It ca… ncG1vNJzZmicn6OurbDRqJmeqqSovK960q6ZrKyRmLhvr86mZqlnpJ2%2FprGMpqadnaKjerW%2BwKeqpZmknryvv4yonWalkaewtr%2BMmqyrnZyewrR5wZ5vnZtjmrN0rsCb

When Jennifer Lopez decides to do something, she will do it, no matter if the public wants it or not. Did anyone ask her to release a high-concept visual album exploring her persona as a hopeless romantic? No. But she made one anyway and it is exactly on-brand. The second she dropped the trailer for This Is Me… Now: A Love Story, confusion spread across the internet like a five-alarm fire.

Friends, Last night, Trump and 18 others were criminally charged in Georgia in connection with efforts to overturn Joe Biden’s 2020 victory in the state. Trump was charged with 13 counts, including violating the state’s racketeering act, soliciting a public officer to violate their oath, conspiring to impersonate a public officer, conspiring to commit forgery in the first degree, and conspiring to file false documents. The indictment also charges some of Trump’s most prominent advisers, including Rudolph W.

Last month, I wrote about why I believe Fleabag is a ghost story. In that essay, I focused solely on season one of my favorite tv show. After writing it, I got a few encouraging comments that made me think a follow-up, on season two, was worth writing. So that’s what we’re doing today. If you have not watched Fleabag — and especially if you have not wat…

I just got back from a trip to the UK. I was able to squeeze in some time with nearest and dearest, and for me that includes friends as well as family. I’m lucky to have male friends who I love deeply, and delight in spending time with. Most years, four or five of us manage a weekend walking trip. One of my friends admonished me for not having a chapter about friendship in Of Boys and Men.

An excerpt from the Tale of The Brothers True: Now hyt befelle whan the lande was in grete turmoil, that yt was overron with mony bandits and brigands, masked on mouth and blue on hayre, whych dede grete myschief abroade on lande. And the tore down the colours of the lande that they myght raise on hy that of the Sarassens, to meke shewe of lawlessnesse and ruin. But the Brethryn of the Fraternite wente not that thys should stande, that they dud brave the tauntes and missiles of the bandits, and raised on hy the true blazon with its ryt noble colours of redde, wyt, and blue.

This week I went back to work for the first time in three weeks. We’d planned a trip to Tokyo, then plans changed when we lost dad. We did sneak in a quick trip to the Caribbean, which was cut short by IT issues challenging our non-revenue travel plans. I didn’t fly the Mooney during that stretch, either, which added to my frustration. Finally, my scheduled trip rolled up and off I went.