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Oct 18, 2024 | 
wsj.com | Nicholas Clairmont
In 1797, as the revolution in France cooled down following the Reign of Terror, François-Noël “Gracchus” Babeuf stood trial for organizing a putsch against the governing directorate running Paris at the time.
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Feb 19, 2024 | 
thecritic.co.uk | Nicholas Clairmont
Nicholas Clairmont has avidly viewed more than 750 episodes of the comedy about the residents of Springfield — but won’t be watching any more This article is taken from the February 2024 issue of The Critic. To get the full magazine why not subscribe? Right now we’re offering five issues for just £10. Virtually any die-hard Simpsons fan will tell you he or she does not watch The Simpsons and hasn’t for years. For my sins (OK, out of sheer obsessive completism), I am not amongst them.
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Jan 19, 2024 | 
airmail.news | Nicholas Clairmont
What do you do when, nearly 45 years into your career as a journalist, you find yourself the top reporter on the biggest story in a generation, and then you are driven out by your own colleagues over a single word? If you’re Donald G. McNeil Jr., you move to the beach and take up fishing. You buy a car that can go off-road.
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Jan 4, 2024 | 
washingtonexaminer.com | Nicholas Clairmont
Like yours, my first glimpses of the Sphere in Las Vegas were online ones. I’d seen pictures and videos crop up in social media posts showing the glowing orb on the outskirts of the Vegas skyline and in the banner images atop a rash of recent stories in the press by writers in places such as the Atlantic and the Paris Review who, I noticed, had more dazzled reactions than I would have expected. In fact, they seemed to be more dazzled than they had expected.
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Nov 10, 2023 | 
washingtonexaminer.com | Nicholas Clairmont
Very few things could improve my life as quickly as the destruction of Twitter, which is why I was so glad when, in the spring through autumn of 2022, businessman Elon Musk bought Twitter for $44 billion. He then proceeded to make a number of changes that have, in the near-ubiquitous opinion of power users of Twitter, made the product worse. He fired some 80% of the workforce.
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Nov 9, 2023 | 
newstatesman.com | Nicholas Clairmont
Here are some things I learned in Evelyn McDonnell’s new book allegedly about Joan Didion, The World According to Joan Didion:Evelyn McDonnell lives in San Pedro, California. Evelyn McDonnell considers the California mythology around coastal living (“overdetermined, romanticized, privileged”) to “figure prominently in my own childhood mythology”. Evelyn McDonnell loves nature, “like Joan”.
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Nov 7, 2023 | 
tabletmag.com | Nicholas Clairmont
Taylor Lorenz and her work represent a chasm between the American news media and its readers. While ordinary readers may well be blessedly unaware of the “internet culture reporter” and the drama that follows her and her hundreds of thousands of “followers” on Twitter and every other social media platform, no friend of mine in media is unaware of her or without an opinion. She and I have both been in journalism since around 2014.
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Oct 27, 2023 | 
washingtonexaminer.com | Nicholas Clairmont
We have now been living with, or arguably even under, the ideology called “social justice” or “wokeness” for a decade. Over the past few weeks, however, many decent people who previously downplayed the seriousness of the problem have noticed something others among us have worried about for a long time, namely that the woker the coalition that makes up the Left gets, the less it likes Jews.
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Oct 4, 2023 | 
thenewatlantis.com | Mike Hulme |Nicholas Clairmont |Roger Pielke |Matt Frost
Sign in or Subscribe Now for audio version Mike Hulme, a Cambridge professor of human geography who has served on the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and holds a certificate for his contributions to that body’s climate science from when it was awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, is no climate denier. And yet time and again in his new book he is at pains to preempt the charge that, actually, he is.
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Oct 4, 2023 | thenewatlantis.com | Mike Hulme |Nicholas Clairmont |Roger Pielke |Matt Frost
Sign in or Subscribe Now for audio version Mike Hulme, a Cambridge professor of human geography who has served on the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and holds a certificate for his contributions to that body’s climate science from when it was awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, is no climate denier. And yet time and again in his new book he is at pains to preempt the charge that, actually, he is.
