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Economic conditions

The Age of the Crisis of Work

by Erik Baker ,

What is the sound of quiet quitting?

Bond Market

by Lee A. (Lee Allan) Craig , Julianne Treme , Thomas Joseph Weiss ,

From “License to Dine: 007 and the Real Exchange Rate,” a working paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research, which compares the evolution of James Bond’s salary with that…

Too Much Art

by Jacques Barzun ,

Once again, the budgets of the agencies that support the arts are to be cut. Meanwhile, costs in the arts are going up. But one continues to read and hear…

The Art of Losing

by James Pogue ,

Can Democrats win back postindustrial America?

The Wanderer’s Port

by Thomas Chatterton Williams ,

I landed in Lisbon late on a temperate Thursday in January. This was the end of an unusually pan-European week for me. I’d spent the previous two days in a…

Nighthawks at the Dunkin’

by Jeff Sharlet ,

From This Brilliant Darkness, out last month from W. W. Norton. The book is composed of short essays about encounters Sharlet had while photographing strangers. mike All photos by Jeff Sharlet The…