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Contents 3 Editor’s letter Lacking a pulse is no longer an obstacle to having a thriving Holly- It was perhaps inevitable that Hollywood would start reviving wood career. That became clear last week when director Anton Ernst announced that James Dean—dead since 1955—had been old screen greats, because it already makes a killing resuscitating cast in a leading role in his upcoming Vietnam War movie, Finding Jack. To resurrect Dean, Ernst will feed old footage and photos of old movies. In the past year, Disney has released live-action re- the Rebel Without a Cause star into advanced CGI software. Still- breathing actors reacted with outrage, perhaps fearing the dead makes of four of its classic animated movies—Dumbo, Aladdin, might soon come for their jobs. “This is awful,” said Captain America star Chris Evans. “Maybe we can get a computer to The Lion King, and Lady and the Tramp—and more redos are paint us a new Picasso. The complete lack of understanding here is shameful.” The entertainment industry has experimented with in the works. And as Martin Scorsese recently griped (see Talk- digital necromancy before: High-tech wizardry allowed Peter Cushing and Carrie Fisher to reprise their Star Wars roles post- ing Points), all Marvel superhero movies are “remakes in spirit,” mortem, and hologram versions of Elvis and Frank Zappa have toured the world. But Dean is the first star to be brought back for because they follow the same market-researched narrative arc: A a work with which he had no connection while alive. hero emerges, struggles with self-doubt, then beats those inner demons along with the supervillain. In this risk-averse environ- ment, recycling dead actors makes perfect sense—they can’t em- barrass movie studios with sex scandals, dumb comments, or drug problems, and they’ll never abandon a franchise to make art house movies. So let me offer my congratulations in advance to James Dean, who’s sure to be cast as the Theunis Bates next Spider-Man. Managing editor *Naresh Jariwala* NEWS William Taylor, the top U.S. diplomat in Ukraine, testifies in Congress. (p.4) Editor-in-chief: William Falk AP, Getty 4 Main stories ARTS LEISURE Managing editors: Theunis Bates, Public impeachment Mark Gimein hearings begin; Michael 22 Books 26 Food & Drink Deputy editor/International: Susan Caskie Bloomberg shakes up the Was a famous study of A 90-year-old Texas turkey Deputy editor/Arts: Chris Mitchell 2020 presidential race mental hospitals faked? recipe with plenty of spice Senior editors: Alex Dalenberg, Danny Funt, Michael Jaccarino, Dale Obbie, 6 Controversy of the week 23 Author of the week 27 Travel Zach Schonbrun, Hallie Stiller Thirty years after the fall Ken Follett pays tribute Youthful energy and ancient Art director: Dan Josephs of the Berlin Wall, is the to Notre-Dame de Paris history in Tunisia’s capital Photo editor: Loren Talbot world any less divided? Copy editors: Jane A. Halsey, Jay Wilkins 24 Film & Music 28 Consumer Researchers: Joyce Chu, Alisa Partlan 7 The U.S. at a glance Christian Bale and Tools to solve your most Contributing editors: Ryan Devlin, The Supreme Court Matt Damon vexing Thanksgiving puzzles Bruno Maddox considers DACA’s fate; are furiously Jeff Sessions seeks a fast in Ford v BUSINESS Chief sales and marketing officer: Senate comeback Ferrari Adam Dub 32 News at a glance SVP, marketing: Lisa Boyars 8 The world at a glance 25 Television Streaming struggles for Executive account director: Sara Schiano Russian interference in Apple gives Disney; Google harvests Midwest sales director: John Goldrick U.K. elections; violence Emily health-care data Southeast director: Jana Robinson escalates in Hong Kong Dickinson West Coast executive director:Tony Imperato a Gen Z 33 Making money Integrated marketing manager: 10 People makeover Talking about the emotional Lindsay LaMoore Carly Simon on the reasons for your spending Research and insights manager: Joan Cheung trouble with monogamy; Carly Programmatic revenue and ad operations why Daniel Craig refuses Simon 34 Best columns director: Isaiah Ward to open up Airbnb dumps the “hands- Digital planner: Maria Sarno (p.10) off” approach; how mortal 11 Briefing fear motivates Facebook Chief executive officer: Sara O’Connor Are serial killers Chief operating & financial officer: responsible for 220,000 Kevin E. Morgan unsolved murders in the Director of financial reporting: U.S. since 1980? Arielle Starkman Consumer marketing director: 12 Best U.S. columns Leslie Guarnieri Underestimating climate HR manager: Joy Hart change; Nikki Haley’s Operations manager: Cassandra Mondonedo smart 2024 strategy Chairman: Jack Griffin 15 Best international Dennis Group CEO: James Tye columns A rigged election leaves U.K. founding editor: Jolyon Connell Bolivia in chaos Company founder: Felix Dennis 16 Talking points The meaning of “OK Visit us at TheWeek.com. Boomer”; Anonymous’ For customer service go to www Trump tell-all; Scorsese .TheWeek.com/service or phone us vs. superheroes at 1-877-245-8151. Renew a subscription at www .RenewTheWeek.com or give a gift at www.GiveTheWeek.com. THE WEEK November 22, 2019

4 NEWS The main stories... Witnesses tie Trump to Ukraine demands What happened vors is not only a gross abuse of power The House of Representatives’ first pub- but also a clear act of bribery, which lic impeachment hearings commenced the Constitution specifically cites as this week with testimony from a top an impeachable offense. In insisting American diplomat that President Trump he did nothing wrong, Trump “is not was deeply invested in efforts to pressure asking for forgiveness; he’s demanding Ukraine for investigations that would approval.” If Congress gives it to him, help his re-election campaign. William “there’s no going back.” Taylor, the acting U.S. ambassador to Public hearings don’t make the Demo- Ukraine, revealed that his staff overheard crats’ so-called inquiry “any less of a Trump asking European Union Ambas- farce,” said the New York Post. Instead sador Gordon Sondland about “the of conducting genuine fact-finding, investigations” on a phone call, with Democratic leaders are making the process “as scripted as possible” by Sondland telling Trump the Ukrainians Kent and Taylor being sworn in: The hearings begin. were “ready to move forward.” Taylor said this call came after Trump’s personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, only calling witnesses who’ve already testified in secret. GOP *Naresh Jariwala* had been pressuring Ukraine to launch investigations into former members won’t be allowed to call Joe Biden and his son and grill Vice President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter. Taylor also said that them about their conduct in Ukraine, which could show Trump’s Sondland told his staff that Trump “cares more about the investiga- genuine interest in fighting corruption there. “It’s a disgrace.” tions of Biden” than anything else involving Ukraine. What the columnists said The damaging new revelations came in addition to Taylor’s earlier The claim that Trump actually cared about corruption in Ukraine closed-door testimony that State Department officials were told is laughable, said Jonathan Chait in NYMag.com. Ignoring official that investigations into Biden were a precondition for Trump diplomatic channels and dispatching your personal lawyer and two releasing nearly $400 million in congressionally approved military goons with links to the Russian mob to twist arms for political aid to Ukraine. George Kent, another senior State Department favors is not something you do “if you’re looking to fight corrup- official in Ukraine, testified that Trump wanted “nothing less than tion.” Trump’s henchmen Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman were actu- [for Ukrainian] President Volodymyr Zelensky to go to a micro- ally pushing for a piece of Ukraine’s energy import business at the phone and say investigations, Biden, and Clinton.” The New York same time they were shaking down the country for investigations Times reported that after months of pressure, Zelensky agreed to into the Bidens. Trump’s only interest in corruption was to use the make such a statement in an interview with Fareed Zakaria on word to smear a political rival. CNN on Sept. 13. But the interview was abruptly canceled after a Trump’s conduct was certainly “blameworthy,” said Rich Lowry whistleblower came forward to complain about a call Trump made in NationalReview.com, but he didn’t break any law. Removing to Zelensky, and a bipartisan group of senators successfully pushed a duly elected president “requires a national consensus to get the the Trump administration to release the aid. two-thirds vote to convict in the Senate.” To get there, Democrats House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff said that if can’t just say what the president did was “troubling and wrong.” the hearings show that Trump “sought to condition, coerce, extort, They need evidence of acts “shocking to the conscience.” or bribe an ally into conducting investi- What next? What we’ve learned should shock the gations to aid his re-election campaign,” conscience, said David Ignatius in The then the House has no choice. “If this “Democrats hope the public hearings make the Washington Post. As Taylor’s testimo- is not impeachable conduct, what is?” details of the Ukraine scandal more digestible for ny clearly showed, Trump was treating Republicans sought to redirect the focus voters at home,” said Steven Shepard in Politico military aid as his “personal political to Hunter Biden’s dealings in Ukraine, .com. But so far, most voters “remain unmov- tool” while our Ukrainian allies were where he served on the board of natural able” in their views of impeachment. Americans fighting a desperate war against Rus- gas firm Burisma, complaining that he are almost equally split on impeachment, with a sian proxies that has cost 13,000 lives should be called to testify. Rep. Devin recent poll showing 49 percent of voters support so far. “People died while Trump Nunes of California, the ranking GOP the House impeaching Trump and 48 percent played games” with aid Ukrainians member of the House Intelligence Com- support the Senate removing him from office. needed to defend themselves from mittee, called the impeachment hearings And 62 percent of all voters say there is “no Russian tanks. And don’t forget about the “low-rent Ukrainian sequel” to the chance” they could change their mind about Trump’s continued stonewalling, said Russia investigation. impeachment. Americans are watching the hear- Neal Katyal in The New York Times. ings unfold in two different worlds, said Eric Lach Every government official who has What the editorials said “Over the next few weeks, the only in NewYorker.com. As Taylor gave his opening stepped forward to testify has done so question that matters is whether Trump’s statement, Fox News ran text boxes quoting against the orders of the White House, actions meet the constitutional threshold the White House incorrectly describing him as which is refusing to let Cabinet officials for impeachment,” said The Boston a “Never Trumper” with “no first-hand knowl- such as Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney Globe. Already, the public has heard edge” of Ukraine aid. In coming weeks, the White and former national security adviser damning testimony that it does. Offering House will rely on Fox “to present the impeach- John Bolton testify. “Trump’s brazen to exchange the release of $400 million ment hearings as a matter of interpretation.” contempt of Congress” is in itself “an in military aid for personal political fa- impeachable offense.” AP THE WEEK November 22, 2019 Illustration by Fred Harper. Cover photos from AP, Lilium, Getty

...and how they were covered NEWS 5 Bloomberg files to join Democratic field What happened Bloomberg’s candidacy has “several large issues,” said the Fort Lau- derdale Sun-Sentinel. He needs to convince voters that his motiva- The Democratic presidential primary was shaken up tion has more to do with beating Trump than with Warren’s wealth this week after Michael Bloomberg—the billionaire tax, and he fares poorly with blacks and Hispanics, who were businessman and former three-term mayor of New “most often stopped and frisked without cause” by New York York City—filed to run in Alabama and Arkansas, bar- reling into the primary’s center lane. Bloomberg, who at police during his mayoralty. Bloomberg also has to contend 77 has amassed a $52 billion fortune on the strength of a with allegations that he made sexist remarks and oversaw global media company, said in March that he would not a company with a deeply sexist work environment. run in 2020. But he’d grown increasingly concerned that the front-runners, former Vice President Joe Biden What the columnists said and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), could not beat President Trump. Bloomberg, who became a national Michael Bloomberg’s run is “a vote of no confidence” political force by donating tens of millions of dollars in Joe Biden, said Dan Balz in The Washington Post. to Democratic candidates and gun control groups, For months, the New York billionaire has waited on has said he would finance any campaign with his own the sidelines, confident that the centrist Biden’s strong money. Advisers said that his wealth lets Bloomberg polling showed he could defeat Trump. But as Biden be “unbought and unbossed” and that he’d spend stumbled, falling in the polls and reportedly encounter- “whatever it takes” to defeat Trump. One national ing difficulty raising cash, Bloomberg decided he’d seen poll showed Bloomberg leading Trump by 6 percentage enough. His run is “evidence that the donor wing of the points—but garnering support from only 4 percent of party” is “truly terrified” that “Warren has gained the up- Democratic primary voters. per hand in the nomination contest” but will not sufficient- ly appeal to moderate voters to win the general election. *Naresh Jariwala* Bloomberg’s potential candidacy drew rebukes ‘Unbought, unbossed’? If Bloomberg wants to avoid a Warren victory, he has from party bosses in Iowa and New Hampshire— it backward, said Peter Beinart in TheAtlantic.com. two states whose early primaries he plans to skip in favor of focus- What better way for Warren, whose national numbers have dipped following her avowed support for “Medicare for All,” to get “her ing on Super Tuesday (March 3), when 14 states hold primaries. His likely entry into the race also prompted Warren and Sen. Bernie mojo back” than to campaign “against a billionaire 52 times over Sanders (I-Vt.), who have both proposed new taxes on the rich, to who keeps slamming her proposed wealth tax”? With Bloomberg potentially in the race, Biden’s donors are reportedly reconsider- accuse him of trying to buy the presidency. “The billionaire class is scared, and they should be scared,” said Sanders, while Warren ing their support. And if “Bloomberg stops anyone,” it’s most called his candidacy “another example of the wealthy wanting our likely to be Pete Buttigieg, the rising candidate whose “moderate turf” Bloomberg wants to “muscle onto.” Bloomberg’s run “will government and economy to only work for themselves.” Trump, empower the very forces” he fears. meanwhile, quickly applied a mocking nickname to his potential adversary, saying, “There’s nobody I’d rather run against than We don’t even know if Bloomberg is definitely running, said Gabriel Little Michael.” Debenedetti in NYMag.com. This may just be a “trial balloon to see how voters and the media treat him before fully committing.” Or What the editorials said “Go, Mike,” said the New York Daily News. Unlike that “huckster his potential campaign might be “an insurance policy” against the demagogue” in the White House, Bloomberg is a “real New York possibility that Biden gets whupped in the early primary contests. billionaire” who built a business from scratch, drove crime down in That would explain his unorthodox decision to skip the first four New York City, “made bold moves to improve public health, created primary states (Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada, and South Caro- lina) and position himself “as a white-knight candidate who could safer and better streets and public spaces,” and ushered in New step in if Biden collapses.” York’s emergence as a “tech economy leader.” Getty, Lori Wood It wasn’t all bad Q Jonathan Pinkard has a new heart and a new family, all Q Police Sgt. Mike Nowacki had a thanks to nurse Lori Wood. The autistic 27-year-old was living plan: He’d run Chicago’s Allstate Q When Ethan Crispo walked into in a men’s shelter and in need of a heart transplant when he Hot Chocolate 15K in 50 pounds of a Waffle House in Birmingham, arrived at Georgia’s Piedmont Newnan Hospital late last year. SWAT gear and then propose to his Ala., for a midnight snack, he was girlfriend, Officer Erin Gubala, at the sure he’d go home with an empty But because Pinkard had no one finish line. The race went well, but stomach. There were 30 customers to care for him post-surgery, he as he approached the final stretch, in the restaurant and—because of a couldn’t join the transplant wait- Nowacki heard people screaming scheduling mishap—only one har- ing list. After caring for Pinkard for someone to help an unconscious ried employee, Ben, who was cook- for two days, Wood made her woman. Nowacki rushed over and ing the food and cleaning up. Then, patient a life-changing offer: If he administered CPR with a firefighter a customer asked Ben for an apron, wanted, she would become his until an ambulance arrived; doctors stepped behind the counter, and legal guardian. Pinkard moved in said their actions saved the woman’s started washing dishes. Two other with Wood in January and un- life. Eventually, Nowacki powered diners began busing tables, and the derwent heart surgery in August; on to the finish line, told Gubala restaurant was running smoothly he hopes to be well enough to what had happened, and popped the again. “Humanity isn’t just good,” resume his job as an office clerk question. “She had to say yes after said Crispo. “It’s great.” soon. “All I can say is, ‘Thank that,” said Nowacki—and she did. Pinkard and Mama Lori you, Mama Lori,’” said Pinkard. THE WEEK November 22, 2019

6 NEWS Controversy of the week The Berlin Wall: 30 years on, what has changed? So much for “the End of History,” said Ishaan Sanders and Elizabeth Warren are riding high in Tharoor in The Washington Post. When the Berlin the polls, buoyed by young, self-styled “Democratic Wall came down 30 years ago this past weekend, the Socialists” who never knew the horrors of the free world reacted with giddy euphoria. That revolu- Soviet Union. Nearly half of Millennials describe tionary moment didn’t just mean the reunification of themselves as “socialist,” said John Hartley in Germany, we were told, or even the defeat of com- USAToday.com. The plans they support—most munism and the end of the Cold War. The peaceful notably, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s “Green New fall of the Wall was hailed as history’s joyous finish Deal”—would bring much of the economy under line, after which the global triumph of liberal democ- government control and drag the U.S. toward the racy and capitalism was no longer in serious ques- collectivist oppression that was so dramatically tion. But history, it turns out, “never ‘ended.’” Thirty proved a failure in 1989. years later, Communist China is the world’s “loom- It isn’t just the Left that’s sliding backward, said ing hegemon”; Hungary and Poland are embracing Brian Klaas in The Washington Post. Behind authoritarian, one-party rule; the forces of tribalism the “would-be strongman” Donald Trump, the and “demagogic populism” are ripping Europe apart; Republican Party has shown some troubling, anti-majoritarian tendencies. In 2014, fully 1 in 6 after a fleeting “Arab Spring,” the Middle East has Tearing down that wall backslid into sectarian bloodshed and tyranny; and in *Naresh Jariwala* Russia, de facto one-party rule has been re-established by a former Americans said that military rule would be “good” or “very good,” KGB officer with all-too-familiar territorial ambitions. Then there’s whereas back in 1995 that figure was only 1 in 16. Let’s face it, said the elephant in the room, said John Avlon in CNN.com. The United Fred Kaplan in Slate.com. The lesson of 1989 is that history isn’t a simple, linear narrative with a happy ending. “History is an unend- States of America, whose leadership, strength, and example was ing whirlwind, and we’re caught in it.” the decisive factor in the Wall’s collapse, is now led by a NATO- skeptical nationalist who admires Russian autocrat Vladimir Putin I was there when the Wall came down, said Serge Schmemann and welcomed his interference in a presidential election. Thirty in The New York Times, and while the hope we all felt seems years after the jubilation of 1989, “we’ve gone from tearing down “quaintly utopian” with the benefit of hindsight, “I refuse to accept walls to building them, and democracy itself seems in retreat.” that nothing changed.” That exhilarating moment proved that The real elephant in the room is socialism, said Helen Raleigh in peaceful protest can bring down an empire—and it is still inspiring TheFederalist.com. The centrally planned, communist economy people from Hong Kong to Chile to rise up and demand their free- of East Germany failed miserably, leaving those living under dom. If freedom does prevail, said Max Boot in The Washington Soviet control in drab near-poverty, while capitalist West Germany Post, it won’t be because “historical forces” were always pushing in boomed. Yet, “like a zombie, socialism refuses to die” and has that direction, as it seemed back in 1989. The fight against oppres- even taken root here in the U.S. Far-left candidates like Bernie sion will be won only by “historical actors”—“in other words, us.” Only in America Good week for: Trump admits to Reuters misusing charity QAn Iowa court has ruled Modern vampires, after Ambrosia, a Silicon Valley startup, against an inmate who resumed selling transfusions of blood plasma from young donors President Trump admitted to claimed he completed his to wealthy, aging customers hoping to reinvigorate themselves. misusing his charity’s funds life sentence by briefly dy- Ambrosia’s CEO had temporarily suspended operations after the last week and agreed to pay ing. Benjamin Schreiber, 66, FDA warned that the transfusions—which cost $8,000 per liter— $2 million in damages. Set- serving life for murder, was had “no proven clinical benefit.” tling a lawsuit with New York resuscitated after his heart state, the president acknowl- stopped, and Schreiber argued Ivanka Trump, who has single-handedly created 14 million jobs since edged using Trump Founda- that his “death” qualified him 2017, a senior White House official (her father) boasted in a speech. tion funds on his businesses for release. The court was This means Ivanka deserves credit for a staggering 233 percent of the and to buy an autographed unpersuaded. “Schreiber is 6 million U.S. jobs created during this period. Tim Tebow football helmet either still alive,” wrote Judge and a $10,000 portrait of Amanda Potterfield, “in which Stasis, after the Dow Jones industrial average closed on Tuesday himself that was hung at his case he must remain in prison, at 27691.49, representing a daily loss or gain of exactly 0.00 per- Doral, Fla., golf resort. The or he is actually dead, in which cent. This was the market’s first “flat finish” since 2014. foundation raised $2.8 mil- case this appeal is moot.” lion at a supposed veterans Bad week for: fundraiser in 2016, which QResidents of Chicago Public Trump illegally diverted to Housing could face evic- Millennials, with a new study warning of “troubling generational his campaign.Trump agreed tion for marijuana use, even health patterns” among those born between 1981 and 1996, includ- to disperse the foundation’s though the drug will soon be ing depression, hyperactivity, high cholesterol, and substance abuse. remaining $1.8 million to legal for both medical and “Without intervention,” the study says, Millennials could have a eight charities and follow re- recreational use in Illinois. 40 percent higher mortality rate than (the preceding) Generation X. strictions in future charitable Marijuana is still illegal under work, such as submitting to federal law, the housing Long-term plans, after a team of scientists and statisticians esti- audits. Trump himself has do- authority warns, so those who mated that humanity has a 1 in 14,000 chance of going extinct next nated little to his foundation consume it in public housing year due to asteroid strikes, supervolcano eruptions, or nuclear war. in recent years and donated will still be guilty of “drug- nothing from 2009 to 2015. related criminal activity.” Reruns, after Hillary Clinton said “many, many, many people” were pleading with her to enter the Democratic presidential race. THE WEEK November 22, 2019 “I, as I say, never, never, never say never,” said Clinton.

The U.S. at a glance... NEWS 7 Columbus, Ohio Washington, D.C. Washington, D.C. WikiLeaked: Onetime Trump campaign Circle of silence: A deputy chairman Rick Gates testified that DACA in doubt: The Supreme he witnessed a phone call between Trump professional referee and former adviser Roger Stone about Court’s conservative majority WikiLeaks’ efforts to disclose and pub- said that Rep. Jim licize emails stolen from the Democratic appeared poised this National Committee. After hanging up, Jordan (R-Ohio), Gates testified, Trump personally told week to let the him that “more information would be then an coming.” With Stone standing trial for Trump administra- lying to Congress, obstruction, and wit- assistant wres- ness tampering, Gates’ testimony is a key tion shut down a piece of evidence of an ongoing relation- Denies he knew of abuse tling coach ship between WikiLeaks and the Trump program protect- at Ohio campaign. It stands in stark contrast to Trump’s own testimony to special counsel ing 700,000 young Robert Mueller, in which Trump said he State University, brushed off a com- didn’t recall speaking with Stone around immigrants known as Appealing to SCOTUS that time. Former Trump strategist Steve “Dreamers.” During plaint about disgraced team doctor Bannon also testified that the campaign saw Stone as an “access point” to Richard Strauss’ sexual misconduct, WikiLeaks. Stone’s defense rested without oral arguments, Justice Brett Kavanaugh calling witnesses. a lawsuit alleged last week. The ref said President Trump made a “consid- Washington, D.C. says he reported that Strauss mastur- Visiting strongman: President Trump ered decision” in 2017 to wind down drew fierce criticism this week for host- bated in front of him in a shower after ing Turkish President Recep Tayyip Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, Erdogan at the White House, one month a match, and Jordan replied, “Yeah, after a Turkish offensive displaced an an Obama-era program shielding some estimated 180,000 people in northern that’s Strauss.” The assertion comes in Syria. With crowds of protesters out- immigrants brought in illegally as children side, Trump said he and Erdogan are a lawsuit filed by 43 survivors against “very good friends” and that Turkey’s from deportation. Opponents of Trump’s cease-fire deal is “holding very well,” Ohio State, which alleges that Strauss though Trump said Erdogan “has to do action have argued the administration *Naresh Jariwala*something” about the “many people drugged and raped athletes and abused from Turkey being killed.” Sen. Chris gave no policy justification for ending Van Hollen (D-Md.) called welcoming kids as young as 14. Jordan, a coach Erdogan “absolutely shameful.” Though the program, pulling the rug out from the House overwhelmingly passed a from 1986 to 1994, called the referee’s bipartisan bill to impose sanctions on people who’d relied on the government’s Turkey for attacking Syria’s Kurds, and statements “ridiculous,” maintaining he a similar bill winds its way through the assurances. Trump once called DACA Senate, Trump has offered Erdogan a was unaware of Strauss’ preda- new trade deal. “It’s time for us not to be beneficiaries “good, educated, and worried about other people’s borders,” tions. Former wrestler Dunyasha Trump said next to Erdogan, adding, accomplished young people,” but “We left troops behind only for the oil.” Yetts previously said he told more recently he’s claimed that Jordan that Strauss, who died they are “no angels.” Justice in 2005, tried to pull down his Sonia Sotomayor called the deci- pants. Yetts commended the sion to end DACA “a choice to unnamed ref for speaking out, destroy lives.” Also this week, the adding, “Jordan and the other court let families of victims in the 2012 coaches knew what was going Newtown, Conn., school shooting sue on and they blew it off.” gunmaker Remington Arms, maker of Mobile, Ala. the gunman’s AR-15–style rifle. Sweet home Alabama: Former Washington, D.C. Attorney General Alt-right email thread: Jeff Sessions Presidential adviser Stephen announced last Miller routinely promoted week that he will white nationalist sites run to reclaim his and sources before old Senate seat, joining the White banking on House, according to his ability to 900-plus emails leaked overcome the this week that he sent editors at Breitbart months of Miller Seeking his old job back scorn President News in 2015 and ’16. Miller, a driving Trump heaped force behind many of President Trump’s on him before forcing him out last year. hard-line immigration policies, argued Sessions’ first campaign ad emphasized against giving Mexican victims of 2015’s his unwavering support for Trump: “Did Hurricane Patricia temporary refuge in I write a tell-all book? No. Did I go on the U.S. and cited a link from VDARE, CNN and attack the president? Nope.” a site that endorses the “white genocide” Trump, who was furious at his AG for theory that people of color are scheming recusing himself in the Russia probe, to overtake whites. Miller also slammed called the appointment his “biggest mis- Amazon for halting sales of Confederate take” as president, saying Sessions was flags after the 2015 massacre in a a “dumb Southerner” who “should be Charleston, S.C., black church. In other ashamed of himself.” Alabama holds its emails, Miller urged Breitbart writers GOP primary election on March 3, and and editors to read Camp of the Saints, the winner will face Democrat Doug a dystopian novel resurrected by the alt- AP, Jeff Malet, AP (2) Jones, who won a startling upset in a right that depicts refugees as murderers 2018 special election to fill Sessions’ and rapists. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio- seat. A poll this week showed 71 per- Cortez (D-N.Y.) said the emails exposed cent of Alabama Republicans still view Miller as a “bona fide white nationalist.” Sessions favorably. THE WEEK November 22, 2019

8 NEWS The world at a glance... London Ankara Kremlin interference: Hillary Clinton ISIS deportations: Turkish President Recep this week joined many U.K. politi- Tayyip Erdogan has begun deporting suspected cians in criticizing Prime Minister Boris ISIS fighters to their home nations, and he said Johnson’s decision to sit on a report he would continue to do so unless Western about Russian interference in British countries stopped threatening sanctions politics—including in the 2016 Brexit against Turkey. He was apparently respond- Erdogan ing to the European Union’s announcement referendum and the 2017 election. The 50-page dossier was produced after an this week that it would sanction Turkey for its unauthorized oil drill- Johnson: Sitting on report investigation by Parliament’s Intelligence ing off the coast of Cyprus. Turkey has detained some 2,500 mem- and Security Committee, and intel- bers of the terrorist group, and this week it sent several dozen ligence agencies have cleared it for release. But Johnson said it detainees to France, Germany, Denmark, and Ireland. A U.S. citizen needed additional vetting and would not be made public until after who said he did not want to go home was deported to Greece. But Britain’s Dec. 12 election. Clinton, in the U.K. for a book tour, Greece refused him entry and Turkey wouldn’t take him back, so he called the decision “inexplicable and shameful.” The Sunday Times was left stuck in the buffer zone separating the two countries. reported that the dossier names nine wealthy Russians who have donated generously to Johnson’s Conservative Party. Toronto Hockey institution fired: Hockey announcer Don Cherry, a fixture on Canadian TV for more than three decades, is off the air after he questioned the patriotism of immigrants to Canada. Cherry, 85, complained that people in Toronto—where the popu- lation is half nonwhite—failed to wear poppies for Remembrance Day to commemorate the Canadians who died in World War I. “You people that come here,” he said, “you love our way of life, you love our milk and honey, at least you can pay a couple bucks for a poppy.” Cherry has co-hosted a segment on Hockey Night in Canada since 1986 and has been accused of xenophobia, because he criticizes European-born players as weak or lazy. He has also called Quebec nationalists “a bunch of whiners” and opponents of fighting in the game “turncoats.” *Naresh Jariwala* La Mora, Mexico Mormons flee: Traveling in an 18-vehicle convoy, about 100 of the 200 members of an American Mormon com- munity in northern Mexico have moved to Arizona after nine of their family members were massacred by drug cartel gunmen. More members of the La Mora community are expected to relocate soon. Bryce Langford, whose mother, Dawna, was shot dead in last week’s ambush along with two of his brothers—ages 11 and 2—said the community had been discussing a move even before the attack because of increased cartel activity near their homes. But they hadn’t Burying the dead expected to have to flee so suddenly, he said. Mormons have lived in Mexico since the church banned polygamy a century ago, leading Mormon families with multiple wives to head south. The La Mora community was established in 1944. Madrid Curitiba, Brazil Leftist coalition: After its fourth election in four years, Spain may finally have a coalition government. Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s Lula goes free: Former Brazilian center-left Socialist Party came in first in this week’s parliamentary elections and will stay in power, although it took only 120 of 350 President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva seats—three fewer than it won in April’s election. After that elec- was greeted by throngs of cheering, tion, Sánchez failed in his attempts to form a coalition with the far-left red-shirted supporters after he was released Podemos party, prompting this week’s rerun. This time, though, the two left- from prison last week, having served a year wing parties clinched a deal just two days after the vote. The election also and a half behind bars. Lula, one of the saw the ultraright Vox surge in popu- larity, vaulting from 24 seats to 52. most popular presidents in Brazilian his- Out of prison Three years ago, that anti-immigrant tory, was sent to prison in 2018 for eight party was a fringe movement with less Sánchez: A government at last? than 1 percent of the vote. years and 10 months after being found guilty of accepting a beach house from a company seeking government contracts. But the evidence against Lula was thin, and his supporters say the charges Reuters, Newscom, AP (3) were political. The Supreme Court ruled last week that defendants should not be jailed until they have exhausted their appeals, so Lula was freed—along with some 5,000 other people—while he pursues an appeal. If his conviction is eventually overturned, Lula will likely become the leftist Workers’ Party candidate in the 2022 election. THE WEEK November 22, 2019

The world at a glance... NEWS 9 St. Petersburg, Russia Kabul Prisoner swap: Two American University of Afghanistan profes- Murderous professor: A Russian expert on Napoleon has admit- sors who were kidnapped by the Taliban three years ago could soon be free. Afghan President Ashraf Ghani said that he would ted that he killed his student lover—after he was caught trying to release three Taliban commanders in exchange for American Kevin King, 63, and Australian Timothy Weeks, 50. Four months after drunkenly dump her dismembered arms in the Moika River. “I am they were taken from their car at gunpoint, the two men appeared in a hostage video looking haggard, weeping, and pleading to be devastated,” Oleg Sokolov, 63, told a court this week, saying he released, but they haven’t been seen since. A Navy SEAL attempt to rescue them in 2016 was unsuccessful. The three militants who was deeply sorry for killing Anastasia Yeshchenko, 24. He claimed will be released are members of the Haqqani network, a hard-line faction of the Taliban based in Pakistan. Ghani said the prisoner that she had threatened him with a knife, leading swap shows his government’s intention to build trust ahead of face-to-face peace talks with the Taliban. him to shoot her four times with a sawed-off shot- gun and then chop up her body with a saw and kitchen knife. Sokolov, a professor at the presti- gious St. Petersburg University and a prominent re-enactor of the Napoleonic Wars, has a history of alleged violence. In 2008, another female stu- dent said that Sokolov tied her up and beat her when she wanted to leave him. She reported Hong Kong Sokolov to the authorities after escaping, Surge in violence: The five-month Sokolov but he was not arrested. showdown between pro-democracy protesters and police in Hong Kong erupted into widespread violence this *Naresh Jariwala* week, forcing subway and bus lines, schools, and businesses to be closed for days. Police shot an unarmed protester at close range—leaving the Detaining a protester 21-year-old in critical condition— and a man who accused a group of protesters of not being Chinese was doused in flammable liquid and set alight. He is also in critical condition. Riot police beat demonstrators with batons at a rally in the financial district, while office workers sought to help the protesters by giving them water and umbrellas. At the Chinese University of Hong Kong, battles broke out between students and police, who were blamed by activists for the death of a 22-year-old student who fell from a parking garage. Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam called the demonstrators the “enemy of the people.” Istanbul Gaza White Helmets founder killed? A former British army officer who Israel vs. Islamic Jihad: A cross-border battle erupted between the helped found the Syrian rescue group known as the White Helmets Israeli Defense Forces and militants in the Gaza Strip this week was found dead outside his Istanbul apartment this week, having after a top Islamic Jihad leader and his wife were killed by an apparently fallen from a balcony. Suspicion fell immediately on Israeli airstrike. Baha Abu al-Ata was the Iran-backed militant the Russian government, which had accused James group’s senior commander in northern Gaza, and Israeli Prime Le Mesurier, 48, of being a terrorist and a spy. Russian Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called him a “ticking time bomb” intelligence services have a history of defenestrating and “the main instigator of terrorism” from Gaza. Islamic Jihad their targets. Le Mesurier set up Mayday Rescue, responded to the missile strike on Abu al-Ata’s home by firing hun- a nonprofit that organized and trained the White dreds of rockets into Israel, wounding at least one civilian. Israel, Helmets—known officially as Syria Civil Defense. in turn, launched airstrikes and fired artillery rounds at targets in The 3,000-member group is a volunteer organiza- Gaza, killing at least 24 people. The IDF said it was hitting only tion whose first responders have pulled thousands sites controlled by Islamic Jihad and was optimistic that Hamas— of civilians out of the rubble after bombings of the militant group that controls Gaza—would stay out of the fight. residential areas, mostly by Syrian and Russian forces. The group has been the target of a Russian Sydney disinformation campaign that accuses it of faking chemical attacks and staging gory bombing scenes. Le Mesurier Raging wildfires: Australian authorities ordered thousands of people to evacuate and closed hundreds of schools as more than 150 bush- fires ripped through New South Wales (NSW) and Queensland this week. Since the official fire season began on Oct. 1, some 3,800 square miles have burned, more than three times the area that burned during all of last season. “They won’t have this out for days, weeks, months,” said NSW Rural Fire Service chief Shane Fitzsimmons. Greg Mullins, NSW’s former fire chief, blamed climate change for the unprec- Getty, AP (2), Newscom edented blazes. “Fires are burning in places and at intensities never before experienced,” he said, “rain forests in northern New South Wales, tropical Queensland, and the formerly wet old- growth forests in Tasmania.” Watching a blaze in NSW THE WEEK November 22, 2019

10 NEWS People The face of the ’70s Marisa Berenson’s career began like a Hollywood fairy tale, said Emine Saner in The Guardian (U.K.). Born into privilege, Berenson was taught to dance by Gene Kelly, and when she was 16, her father took her to a ball in New York where she was discovered by the legendary Vogue editor Diana Vreeland. On a modeling shoot in India in the late 1960s, she visited the birthplace of transcen- dental meditation and found George Harrison and Ringo Starr already there. “We were all on the same quest,” she says. After a day of meditating, she’d go to Harrison’s room and hear him play guitar. When she returned to New York, Luchino Visconti cast her on sight for Death in Venice, which led to roles in Bob Fosse’s Cabaret and Stanley Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon. But despite this elec- trifying start on screen, Berenson “put everything on hold” upon marrying rivet tycoon Jim Randall. Their divorce led to a series of setbacks and tragedies in Berenson’s life, climaxing when her sister Berry was a passenger on one of the planes that hit the World Trade Center on 9/11. That led her to dive deeper into meditation and spirituality. “I try to look at things on a different level of conscious- ness, and I connect with my sister all the time,” says Berenson, 72. “I never feel alone.” *Naresh Jariwala* Craig’s Bond-like mystique Simon’s A-list exes Getty, Liz Linder, Newscom (2) Daniel Craig’s steely persona is perfect for James Bond, said Carly Simon is an expert on vain men, said David Smith in The Jonathan Dean in The Times (U.K.). Off-screen, however, his Guardian (U.K.). Her iconic song “You’re So Vain” was informed, in permanent scowl and habit of giving paparazzi the finger can part, by a lifetime of rubbing shoulders with celebrities. The daugh- make Craig seem like a grouch. Is that fair? “Probably,” he ter of Simon & Schuster co-founder Richard Simon, the singer was says. “I don’t do much to dispel it. Some can go on talk shows close pals with Jackie Kennedy Onassis and had romances with and tell stories, but I’m just not wired that way.” With Craig Warren Beatty, Mick Jagger, Kris Kristofferson, Jack Nicholson, and filming his fifth and final Bond film, it’s easy to forget that the Cat Stevens, plus a decade-long marriage to James Taylor. Despite British actor, with his theater training and his temperament, isn’t moving in such A-list circles, Simon, 74, struggled with anxiety and a conventional blockbuster star. “I love what I do, but I grew depression. She started taking Prozac in 1989 to numb her nerves up in an era when, if you were trying to be an artist, you didn’t and found similar relief dabbling in cocaine. “It made me lose all of look for approval,” he says. “You didn’t look for likes. Who my self-consciousness,” she says. “I thought I was so wonderful.” am I personally? It has nothing to do with anybody, except for But Taylor’s use of drugs and alcohol, she contends, contributed to the people in my life.” Obviously, he’s not fond of social media. the breakdown of their marriage. “I didn’t know how to deal with “There is a constant looking for approval, and it really jars with it,” Simon says. Since they split up, she says, Taylor will not speak me,” Craig says. “But I’m a 51-year-old man. Nobody listens to her, even though they had two children together. “That’s one of to me. I grew up when punk rock was on the scene. You want the sad things in my life. He just doesn’t want to have any contact approval? That’s anathema to me.” He thinks basing your actions with me at all.” Monogamy, she says, “is very hard.” “I’ve never on affirmation is a deeper, crippling problem for people in his line known a man who wasn’t attracted to the adventure of seeing of work. “It doesn’t make any sense in art,” Craig says. “It’s anti- whether he could get a woman to be interested in him.” art. It’s anti-creativity.” Q Cars frontman Ric Ocasek cut his es- discovered Ocasek dead from a heart attack leaked to right-wing provocateur James tranged wife of 28 years, upon bringing him a morning coffee. Filings O’Keefe, ABC did an internal investigation supermodel Paulina Porizkova, list Ocasek with $5 million in assets from and blamed producer Ashley Bianco, who’d out of his will shortly before “copyrights” but just $100,000 in “tangible since moved to CBS. ABC reportedly called his Sept. 15 death. “Even personal property,” though he could have her new bosses at CBS and got her fired. “I’ll if I should die before our millions more tucked away in trusts. never get a job anywhere else—it’s devastat- divorce is final,” the new ing,” Bianco said. She said the video was wave legend, 75, wrote Q A former ABC News producer said last widely circulated at ABC and whoever leaked in documents made week she was wrongly accused and fired it “is still inside” the network. public last week, “Paulina over a leaked video regarding a story the is not entitled to any elec- network refused to run three years ago Q Self-described “Christian comedian” John tive share” because “she about serial predator Jeffrey Epstein. The Crist canceled his upcoming tour this week has abandoned me.” The video showed anchor Amy Robach com- after five women accused him of inappropri- couple, who have two plaining that she was not allowed to air ate sexual behavior. A Netflix special was sons, announced they an interview with one of Epstein’s victims, also shelved after the women said Crist, 35, were splitting in May 2018 who claimed she’d been forced to perform barters tickets for sexual favors, drunkenly but it was Porizkova, 54, who sex acts with Prince Andrew; Robach was begs for sex, and pursues married women. recorded on a hot mic saying she thought Crist, the son of a pastor, admitted to “sexual ABC feared losing access to Prince William sins” and causing women “hurt and pain,” and Kate Middleton. When the video was adding, “I have also hurt the name of Jesus.” THE WEEK November 22, 2019

Briefing NEWS 11 Why serial killers kill There have been 220,000 unsolved murders in the U.S. since 1980. Are serial killers to blame? How many serial killers are there? 100 “strangers” over the course Since 1900, there have been 3,000 of his lifetime. By comparison, identified American serial killers who’ve modern urban dwellers live amid collectively killed nearly 10,000 people, “a sea of strangers,” providing the says Dr. Michael Aamodt, who oversees consistent, impersonal interactions the Radford University/Florida Gulf and anonymity that are almost pre- Coast University Serial Killer Database. conditions for serial killing. Those The FBI defines a serial killer as some- who’ve studied serial killers believe one who kills two or more people in that many are at least partly moti- separate events. About 32 percent of vated by the attention and fame these killers, Aamodt says, did so for that mass media can provide mass enjoyment (thrills, lust, and power); murderers. As Dennis Rader, the 30 percent for financial reward; 18 per- self-proclaimed “BTK killer” (“Bind cent in anger; 6.3 percent to advance them, torture them, kill them”), put a criminal enterprise; and fewer than it in a letter to a TV station, “How *Naresh Jariwala* 1 percent because a cult put them up to many people do I have to kill before it. Their favorite murder weapon was Samuel Little’s many mug shots over years of arrests I get a name in the paper or some a gun (42 percent), although 6 percent national attention?” He murdered preferred poison and 2 percent axes. About 52 percent were white, 10 people during the 1970s and ’80s in Kansas. 40 percent black, and 6.7 percent Hispanic. Men outnumber women by a factor of 10. Samuel Little, a transient former boxer How do they choose targets? and career criminal serving time for two murders, was recently Serial killers often prey on the most marginalized members of identified by the FBI as the most prolific serial killer in U.S. his- society. Little, for one, managed to evade detection for so long by tory, after he confessed to 93 killings between 1970 and 2005. preying on prostitutes, drug addicts, and homeless women. As he What makes a serial killer? told New York Times reporter Jillian Lauren, “I never killed no senators or governors or fancy New York journalists. Nothing like Probably a combination of genetics and experience. Research that. I killed you, it’d be all over the news the next day. I stayed shows that certain genes can predispose people to violence. (One in the ghettos.” Earlier this year, Bruce McArthur pleaded guilty gene, particularly, the so-called warrior gene, is present in about to murdering eight men in Toronto’s Gay Village—many of them 30 percent of the population and has been linked to increased immigrants from South Asia or the Middle East who were not aggression.) Many serial killers also experienced childhood trauma “out” to their families. Generally speaking, the majority of victims or early separation from their mothers. As a consequence of that of serial killers are women (51.4 percent). African-American vic- trauma or separation, scientists believe, they learned to suppress tims are over-represented (24 percent) relative to their proportion empathy or suffered damage to the areas of the brain that con- of the U.S. population (13 percent). trol emotional impulses. Serial killers often are loners who fear How many are active? all relationships and seek to control, to destroy other people to eliminate the possibility of another humiliating rejection. Prolific Data suggest that American serial killing peaked in the 1980s and arsonist Robert Dale Segee, who is believed to have killed 168 and has declined since then. The FBI says only 1 percent of murders injured hundreds more by setting a fire today are committed by serial killers, Getty at a Connecticut circus in 1944, grew up The century of mass killings and that it’s harder for them to go with a dad who punished him by holding undetected, because of DNA evidence, his fingers over a candle flame. Jeffrey Many factors are credited with the growth in public cameras, stricter parole laws, Dahmer, who killed, dismembered, and the number of serial killers during the 20th cen- and the use of databases. But Michael partially ate 17 boys and young men tury. Some have cited the creation of the Arntfield, a retired police detective beginning in 1978, said he did so “not interstate highway system, which gave preda- and author of a dozen books on serial because I hated them, but to keep them tors greater mobility and a vulnerable pool of killing, contends that the number of with me.” Gerald Stano, who killed at victims—hitchhikers. Historian Peter Vronsky repeat killers active today is more least 22 women beginning in the 1970s, says the growth of cities and surge in suburbs likely between 3,000 and 4,000. He compared killing people to “stepping on “led to a lot of transience, a lot of mobility, a notes that the police “solve rate” for a cockroach.” Little said he got sexual lot of broken families, which is where many murders dropped from 91 percent in pleasure from strangling women with his of these people came from.” But Vronsky also 1965 to only 61.6 percent in 2017, bare hands, and that by taking their lives, says the savagery of World Wars I and II might partly because mass killers are more he came to “own” them. have contributed as well. He says there was a sophisticated. Thomas Hargrove, who bump in active serial killers in the years imme- has created the nation’s largest data- What role does society play? diately after the First World War and an even base of killings, also puts the number greater one after the Second. The wars, he of active serial killers at greater than The teeming, impersonal nature of the said, were “far more vicious and primitive than 2,000. “There are more than 222,000 modern world is fertile soil for creating we have been able to acknowledge.” Vronsky unsolved murders since 1980,” he said. serial killers, experts say. Five hundred believes traumatized soldiers who had been “I’ll say almost every major American years ago, the average citizen lived in a desensitized to taking lives either became kill- city has multiple serial killers and mul- small community, traveled rarely if at all, ers themselves or had a hand in raising them. tiple uncaught serial killers.” and might have come into contact with THE WEEK November 22, 2019

12 NEWS Best columns: The U.S. Scientists Scientists were wrong about climate change, said Eugene Linden. It’s It must be true... happening far faster, and more catastrophically, than almost anyone underestimated predicted. If in 1990 a scientist had suggested that within 25 years a I read it in the tabloids single, massive heat wave would melt enough ice to measurably raise Q An exasperated mother climate change sea levels while baking Paris and Berlin with “Sahara-like tempera- in China suffered a heart tures,” they “would have been dismissed as alarmist.” But that’s exactly attack after repeatedly—and unsuccessfully—attempting Eugene Linden what happened this summer, when temperatures rose into the 80s to help her 9-year-old with his math homework. The wom- The New York Times above the Arctic Circle, melting 40 billion tons of the Greenland ice an, surnamed Wang, said, “I explained it to him many sheet. When global warming was first observed, decades ago, scientists times, but he still didn’t get it. I was so angry that I could ex- assumed that major climatic changes would take a century or more. plode.” Suffering from short- ness of breath and palpita- But as feedback loops kick in, many of the “worst-case scenarios” are tions, she was rushed to the hospital and was treated for a already becoming a reality. Seas are warming rapidly, and the Antarctic heart attack. “She caught it in time,” said Dr. Yang Xiaoxue. ice sheets, once believed stable, are crumbling and melting—threatening “If there had been any delay, she could have suffered from to inundate coastal cities. The permafrost in northern latitudes is thaw- heart failure.” ing and could release gargantuan amounts of methane and CO2. With Q Paramedics in Ohio thought the worst after re- greenhouse gas emissions still climbing, it’s possible that “the projected sponding to a car accident in which the driver’s face, risks of further warming, dire as they are, might still be understated.” hair, and dress appeared to be covered in blood. In the near future, “It is going to get worse. A lot worse.” Sidney Wolfe, 20, was actually returning from *Naresh Jariwala* an event costumed as Making Many liberal Democrats “have fallen out of love with free speech,” said Stephen King’s Carrie, free speech Jonathan Turley, and are calling for censorship and even criminalization and had warned a 911 illegal of opposing views. In a “chilling” opinion column, former Time edi- dispatcher, “I’m in Hal- tor Richard Stengel recently called for the U.S. to adopt a “hate speech loween makeup,” after Jonathan Turley law,” saying the First Amendment has “a design flaw,” and “should her car hit a deer. But not protect hateful speech that can cause violence by one group against she said medics were USA Today another.” As an example, he cites attacks on Islam, such as burning the still “taken aback” Quran. Stengel has plenty of company: U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio- by her gruesome ap- Cortez recently demanded that Facebook remove any political ad she pearance. They all “thought I and her progressive allies deemed “a lie.” Some liberals are even calling was dead,” said Wolfe, who for the adoption of European-style “hate crime” laws. Consider what suffered a minor leg injury. that would mean: A German politician was charged with a crime for When a police officer drove calling immigrants “scum,” and in the U.K., a Baptist minister was up and saw her joking with briefly jailed for denouncing homosexuality. Despite such censorship, the medics, he angrily said, neo-Nazi and extremist parties are on the rise throughout Europe. Ban- “Are we going to ignore that ning “bad” speech doesn’t work; the best antidote to ugly ideas is good this girl is gushing blood and speech. Our basic freedoms should not be debatable. needs medical assistance?” Haley’s clever Nikki Haley “is one of the shrewdest operators in the Republican Q A NASA astronaut con- positioning Party,” said Paul Waldman. The former South Carolina governor founded election officials in for 2024 is one of the very few aides who managed to serve in the Trump his home county in Pennsyl- administration—as ambassador to the United Nations—“while nei- vania by listing his where- Paul Waldman ther destroying her own reputation nor incurring Trump’s vindictive abouts on an absentee ballot wrath.” Now Haley has come out with a memoir in which she care- application as “International The Washington Post fully calibrates her stance on Trump, mixing in proof of her loyalty Space Station, low Earth or- while portraying herself as “an independent voice unafraid to make bit.” Ed Allison, a voting offi- her disagreements known.” She doesn’t think, for example, that it was cial in Lawrence County, said “good practice” for Trump to ask Ukraine to investigate his political his reaction upon reading rival, but says it’s not impeachable. She expresses “outrage” that then– Drew Morgan’s application Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Chief of Staff John Kelly asked was, “What?” But he said he her to join them in resisting Trump’s more harebrained impulses, in then “started to get calls from order “to save the country.” By conspiring against an elected president, NASA,” and resolved, “We Haley says, Tillerson and Kelly were “undermining the Constitution.” have to get this done.” In the With this book, Haley “puts herself right at the sweet spot for a Re- end, Morgan filled out a bal- publican politician with national ambitions”—capable of winning over lot and electronically trans- both Trump’s base and his many critics. It already looks like she’s run- mitted it to Earth. “It certainly ning for president in 2024. is unique,” Allison said. Viewpoint “The United States is undergoing a transition perhaps no rich and stable democracy has ever experienced: Its historically dominant group is on its way to becoming a political minority—and its minority groups are asserting their co-equal rights and interests. It is not 1860 again in the United States. But numerous examples from American history— most notably the antebellum South—offer a cautionary tale about how quickly a robust democracy @SidwWolfe can weaken when a large section of the population becomes convinced that it cannot continue to win elections, and also that it cannot afford to lose them.” Yoni Appelbaum in TheAtlantic.com THE WEEK November 22, 2019

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14 NEWS Best columns: Europe ITALY It is to Italy’s “infinite shame” that a Holocaust for life everywhere. Yet physical protection is survivor and national treasure now needs a police not enough. “All of Italy must defend Liliana Hounding escort, said Pierluigi Battista. Liliana Segre, 89, is Segre.” Members of the League and other right- a Holocaust so respected for her teachings about the horrors wing, xenophobic parties that abstained from survivor of Auschwitz that last year she was made senator the vote on the anti-racism commission should for life—an honor accorded only to former presi- step up now and say that, despite their political Pierluigi Battista dents and the highest-achieving citizens. But ever differences, they support Segre as a Jewish Ital- since Parliament last month approved a proposal ian. Instead, League leader Matteo Salvini has Corriere della Sera by Segre to create a commission to combat anti- downplayed the threats against her, saying he, too, Semitism and racism, she has been bombarded gets death threats. Is he too obtuse to see the dif- IRELAND with up to 200 death threats and hate messages a ference? His critics hate his politics, while Segre’s day. Some “anti-Semitic rogues” even posted on hate her for who she is: a Jew. “The battle against Porn is social media that she belongs in an incinerator. anti-Semitism is a nonnegotiable value.” Anyone warping Two police officers now accompany the senator who disagrees is not fit to lead Italy. kids’ souls Concern over what access to hardcore porn is to life, had been a prolific consumer of internet Fintan O’Toole doing to our children is not some hysterical moral porn, and it’s hard to believe that this did not panic, said Fintan O’Toole. Two boys were sen- play a role. We have created a world in which the The Irish Times tenced last week for the brutal killing of a teenage developing brains of adolescents are flooded with girl, the youngest people ever to be convicted of “extreme, misogynistic, and addictive sexual imag- murder in Ireland. “It is an event so terrible that ery.” What they can find on their smartphones is it repels any attempt to understand it—but also far worse than the violent video games and movies an event so terrible that we have to try.” The boys that parents fretted over in past decades, and it is were only 13 years old when they lured Ana Krié- warping our young people. The government must gel, 14, to an abandoned home outside Dublin and establish and empower a panel of experts in psy- beat her to death last year. One murderer, identi- chology, technology, and child protection to deter- fied only as Boy A, was also convicted of aggra- mine what boundaries must be set. Ana’s murder vated sexual assault. Boy A, who was sentenced is “a shrill and shocking wake-up call.” *Naresh Jariwala* Europe: Is it time to look beyond NATO? Emmanuel Macron believes that “Amer- ing European democracies. But how ica is cutting Europe loose,” said The can Macron think of building such Economist (U.K.). Although the French an alliance while Russia still occupies president “has worked tirelessly to keep chunks of Ukraine? And Macron’s good relations with U.S. President Donald idea of cooperating with Moscow on Trump,” he says that for the first time cybersecurity is beyond laughable. It’s America has a president who “does not like “inviting the Big Bad Wolf to guard share our idea of the European project.” Little Red Riding Hood.” Europe has not yet accepted this new reality. Macron says that NATO, which Macron’s reckless comments will only Trump has frequently attacked as a foment deeper division among NATO vehicle for European freeloading, is suf- allies, said Marek Swierczynski in fering from “brain death.” He notes that Polityka (Poland). Feeling insecure, coordination in the alliance is collapsing. Macron: NATO is suffering from ‘brain death.’ countries that sit close to Russia—such Trump didn’t notify other NATO leaders as Poland and the Baltic nations—will before he abandoned America’s Syrian Kurdish allies—a decision draw closer to the U.S., not to some French-led European force that allowed NATO member Turkey to invade Syria, threaten- that lacks the tanks, planes, and experience to defend them. ing the West’s anti-ISIS campaign. At this point, Macron says, he The worst outcome will be if Trump reads Macron’s comments can’t be sure that an attack on one NATO nation would trigger a and endorses an alternative to NATO. I can see the tweet now: united response. The French president says Europe must “regain “Great! Go off on your own! WE SAVE BILLIONS!!!” military sovereignty” by developing its own defensive force. At the same time, he wants to reach out to Russia and draw it into a Yet Macron is right, said Christiane Hoffmann in Der Spiegel strategic partnership as Europe’s neighbor. These ideas are bound (Germany). He’s only echoing what German Chancellor Angela to unsettle his NATO partners—but they should hear him out. Merkel said two years ago, “that Europe could no longer rely on the U.S. as it had before.” That won’t change when Trump leaves Warning lights in Central Europe should be “blinking red,” said office, because younger Americans don’t remember the Cold War Maciej Czarnecki in Gazeta Wyborcza (Poland). While “nobody and don’t understand “why Americans should die to protect in Paris will say it aloud,” Macron’s desire for rapprochement Latvia.” Macron is right, too, that we should reach out to Rus- with Moscow “stems largely from France’s close economic ties” sia and not treat it as Europe’s primary enemy: Most threats to with Russia, particularly investments in Russian natural gas by Europe now come from instability in the Middle East, something French energy giant Total. Macron claims to believe that Moscow NATO was not designed to counter. It’s time for Europe to “stop will see partnering with Europe as more beneficial than undermin- talking up NATO” and take control of our security. AP THE WEEK November 22, 2019

Best columns: International NEWS 15 Bolivia: A nation left leaderless as president flees Our nation is finally free of Evo Mo- got a compliant judge to rule that he rales, said El Deber (Bolivia) in an could run in the next election. When editorial, but not before he unleashed that vote was held last month, early an “abominable final act” that pitted results showed that Morales had a Bolivian against Bolivian. The leftist clear lead—but not by the 10 percent- leader was forced to resign as president age points needed to avoid a runoff. this week after the Organization of Then the election board mysteriously American States reported that it had stopped announcing the vote tally, found “clear manipulations” that called and 24 hours later “incomprehensi- into question Morales’ win in last bly” declared Morales the outright month’s presidential election. Morales winner. That “detonated the country’s initially promised to hold a new vote, outrage.” Ever since, Bolivia has been but the head of Bolivia’s armed forces “a cauldron of protests.” instead asked him to step down so the Morales arrives in Mexico while protests rage back home. That’s no excuse for what “looks nation could find peace after weeks of protests that had left at least three people dead. He didn’t go like a coup,” said La Razón (Bolivia). And now police and the *Naresh Jariwala* quietly. Morales declared that his chief electoral rival, former Public Prosecutor’s Office, “showing a speed and levels of coor- President Carlos Mesa, had mounted a coup against him, and dination that have always been lacking between the two institu- that suggestion spurred his supporters to violence. As Morales tions,” are holding dozens of MAS functionaries “as if they were fled to Mexico, which had offered him asylum, militants from common criminals.” Worse, after Morales resigned, his vice his Movement for Socialism (MAS) attacked police stations and president and the heads of both legislative chambers also quit, journalists’ homes, and looted stores and set fire to buses. Bo- leaving the country without a leader in this crisis. livians barricaded themselves in their homes, “fearing for their safety, for their lives, for their property.” Mesa supporters had The key now is to keep the army out of government, said El País earlier ransacked and burned the homes of senior MAS leaders. (Spain). Opposition leader Luis Fernando Camacho has pro- posed the formation of an interim governing board that would Morales no longer believes in democracy, said Página Siete (Bo- include the military and police high command—a disastrous idea livia). During his first three terms, Bolivia’s first indigenous presi- that could spell “the end of democracy.” Instead, Deputy Senate dent was hugely popular, thanks to social spending programs Leader Jeanine Áñez, next in line for the presidency, must be al- that lifted many out of poverty. But he became power mad. After lowed to lead a caretaker government to organize new elections. losing a 2016 referendum that would have let him defy consti- Bolivia is in a precarious state, and only the “utmost respect for tutional term limits, Morales ignored the will of the people and constitutional legality” can save it. RUSSIA The Chinese are running a “shadow hospitality guides ferry busloads of Chinese tourists to specific industry” inside Russia, said Marina Bocharova. sites in Moscow and St. Petersburg, showing them How China Some 1.25 million Chinese visited here last year the ballet, the Hermitage, Red Square, and so on, took over and they outspent every other nationality, dropping and crowding out Russian tourists. Then they tourism more than $500 million in the first three months of take them to unlicensed Chinese shops, where the 2018 alone. But only 40 percent of that money is unsuspecting tourists overpay for purportedly Rus- Marina Bocharova declared to the Russian state, because most Chinese sian jewelry. The shops give the guides a cut of the tourists buy their nesting dolls and other souve- profits. Some tour operators control their custom- Kommersant nirs from secretive, Chinese-owned shops that are ers’ entire stay in Russia, ensuring that the hotels closed to the public. They pay for their tchotchkes they sleep in and the restaurants they eat at are also INDIA using Chinese apps like WeChat Pay and Alipay, so Chinese-owned. Our country ought to profit from the transactions bypass Russian taxes. The system China’s interest in it. But how can it, when “there Why we works like this: Cut-price, unregistered Chinese are almost no Russian players in the industry”? should work at night Indians should be working round the clock, said cases pending in courts at every level. Some might Prafull Goradia. I don’t mean that each individual argue that it’s unnatural to work when it’s dark Prafull Goradia should log extra hours—“the intention here is not out, but they do it half the year in Norway and to whip people into working harder”—but rather other far-northern nations. And given that climate The Statesman that all our offices should run like our factories, change is making parts of India unbearably hot, on shifts. This is a poor country, with more people evening shifts may soon be necessary for many AP than tangible assets, so we need to maximize our occupations. Of course, none of this will be pos- use of infrastructure. With shift work, buildings sible without increased security across the country. and equipment would no longer stand empty and Police will have to patrol the streets constantly, idle half the day, and there would be employment so that all citizens, “women as well as men,” will for many more people. We could start with the feel safe going to work and coming home at night. courts. Plenty of lawyers want more hours to bill, India will progress when society as a whole gets to and they could tackle the backlog of thousands of work “as hard as possible.” THE WEEK November 22, 2019

16 NEWS Talking points Noted ‘OK Boomer’: The new generational put-down QPresident Trump has “Now it’s war,” said Taylor Lorenz iPhones”—they’d discover that tweeted 11,390 times since taking office, and his rate in The New York Times. Teens Boomers “were, and remain, the of tweeting has tripled over the past three months and 20-somethings have created a most socially and environmentally from his 2017 pace. In all, Trump singled himself out new “endlessly repeated retort to conscious generation America for praise 2,026 times and attacked at least 630 people the problem of older people who ever has ever known.” We Boom- and things in 5,889 tweets, Another 1,710 tweets pro- just don’t get it.” The phrase “OK ers transformed the society our moted conspiracy theories; 36 called the news media Boomer” began as an internet parents left us by championing the “enemy of the people”; and in 16, he referred to meme but has since grown into feminism, civil rights, gay rights, himself as everyone’s “favorite” president. a global phenomenon decorating and the environmental movement. The New York Times shirts, hoodies, bedsheets, pins, Boomers also invented the digital QTwo of Energy Secre- stickers, socks, leggings, posters, world and the gadgets without tary Rick Perry’s wealthy political supporters won water bottles, greeting cards, and which youngsters “couldn’t get out a potentially lucrative 50-year drilling contract cellphone cases. When a heckler of bed.” As generational sneers go, in Ukraine about a month after Perry recommended intruded on New Zealand member “OK Boomer” is not very creative, one of them to an aide of President Volodymyr of parliament Chlöe Swarbrick’s ‘Nuff said. said Tyler Cowen in Bloomberg. Zelensky. Michael Bleyzer speech about climate change, the com. It certainly lacks “the vital- and Alex Cranberg won the contract despite offering 25-year-old had a glib, yet withering, reply: “OK ity and rebellious spirit” of the 1960s or ’70s, the Ukrainian government *Naresh Jariwala* $7 million less in fees than Boomer.” It’s become a “rallying cry for millions when my generation took to the streets. Indeed, the lone competing bid. Photo Illustration: Media Bakery and Shutterstock, Alamy of fed-up kids” disgusted that Baby Boomers are this put-down of older people conveys a certain Associated Press leaving them a world plagued by climate change, resigned impotence—a “passive admission as to Q Florida’s $9 billion mounting debt, unaffordable housing, and income who is really in charge.” orange industry inequality. Anyone over 50 can now expect to may col- lapse, as hear this dismissive response any time they say Actually, the beauty of this phrase is its brevity, 90 percent of the state’s orange groves “something condescending about young people said Molly Roberts in The Washington Post. With have been infected by bacterium native to China and the issues that matter to them.” just two words, the young progenitors of “this called huang long bing, which prevents oranges insolent slogan” convey not only their rage over from ripening. Give me a break, said Steve Cuozzo in the New “collapsing climate, an unequal economy, and The Washington Post York Post. Millennials, Gen X, and Gen Z love endless battles overseas that they didn’t start,” but QDoctors have success- fully performed a trans- to whine about how “their complacent elders also that it’s a “waste of keyboard characters” to plant of a penis, scrotum, and lower abdominal wall bequeathed them a rotten America and a rotten explain their point of view to self-satisfied Boom- from a donor to a U.S. soldier who lost his geni- world.” But if they actually studied history—you ers. “They’re saying a lot with very little, and by tals to a roadside bomb in Afghanistan. The patient at know, the kind that “can’t easily be found on saying very little they end up saying even more.” Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, one of 1,300 U.S. Anonymous: Is a new Trump book credible? soldiers to have suffered genital injuries in Af- A senior Trump administration official has writ- Unnamed sources routinely dish to reporters— ghanistan and Iraq, has full ten an anonymous tell-all book that paints “a sometimes, to help the president. And we have urinary and sexual function chilling portrait of the president as cruel, inept, good reason to believe in the author’s credibility, in the transplanted organ. and a danger to the nation,” said Philip Rucker in since his claims in the original Times op-ed have The Washington Post. In A Warning, the author been verified over time. He boasted of an orga- The Washington Post says senior officials were so panicked by Trump’s nized “resistance” among senior administration incompetence and disdain for morality and the officials to frustrate parts of Trump’s agenda and THE WEEK November 22, 2019 law that they considered resigning en masse “to his “worst inclinations.” Just this week, Trump’s sound a public alarm.” Trump, the author says, former ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki asked aides at one meeting, “Can we just get rid Haley, claimed in a memoir that former Secretary of the judges?” At another, he adopted a Hispanic of State Rex Tillerson and former White House accent to mock female migrants without hus- Chief of Staff John Kelly tried to recruit her to dis- bands, calling them “useless.” He “has trouble obey and undermine Trump to “save the country.” synthesizing information”; and creates constant chaos, “like a 12-year-old in an air traffic control Why is the national media taking this book tower,” randomly pushing buttons. The author— seriously? asked Becket Adams in Washington who also wrote an anonymous op-ed in The New Examiner.com. Maybe the person making these York Times last year—claims anonymity will keep allegations is just “a low-level schlub with delu- the discussion centered upon the allegations and sions of grandeur.” Compare this anonymous not him. But because this public servant is “too author’s behavior with that of acting Ukrainian cowardly to stand up publicly for the principles” Ambassador Bill Taylor and Lt. Col. Alexander he claims to hold, said John Warner in the Chi- Vindman, said Gary Edson in TheAtlantic.com. cago Tribune, he only ensures that his revelations These courageous men have staked their careers will have no real impact. on testifying publicly in the House impeachment hearings about this rogue president’s behavior. If Anonymous is a coward, then “he has plenty Anonymous and other officials should take a cue of company,” said Jack Shafer in Politico.com. and “simply step forward.”

Talking points NEWS 17 Scorsese: Marvel movies are ‘not cinema’ Wit & Wisdom Martin Scorsese has called out the At this very moment, Joker, a “We believe that to err “crisis in the art of filmmaking,” Scorsese-like character study about is human. To blame it on someone else is politics.” said Richard Brody in NewYorker the descent of Batman’s nemesis Former Vice President Hubert .com. In an interview and then in into evil and madness, is earning H. Humphrey, quoted in the a newspaper op-ed last week, the both critical acclaim and $1 bil- Tama, Iowa, News-Herald legendary director likened Mar- lion in global ticket sales. Scorsese, “Nothing makes with greater certainty the earth vel superhero movies to “theme 76, need not like the genre, said into a hell than man’s want- ing to make it his heaven.” parks,” calling them “not cinema.” Anthony Breznican in VanityFair Poet Friedrich Hölderlin, Actors and directors who’ve .com, but why did he feel a need to quoted in The New Yorker worked on Marvel’s films and fans trash films enjoyed by millions? He “Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, of the superhero genre objected, grew up as a small, sickly boy who but what you want is arguing that at least some of these was fascinated by prizefighters and someone who will take the bus with you when the films are well-made and well-acted. gangsters. Why begrudge young limo breaks down.” But Scorsese’s point is that truly Scorsese: Where’s the art? people the pleasure of identifying great films such as Taxi Driver with Captain America, “a scrawny Oprah Winfrey, quoted in the Montreal Gazette and Goodfellas are made by artists—auteurs, if nobody” who becomes “more powerful than he “Grief changes shape, you will—whose vision is felt in every aspect of could ever imagine”? but it never ends.” *Naresh Jariwala* the process. Directors of formulaic blockbusters Keanu Reeves, quoted in The Guardian (U.K.) like Avengers: Endgame are reduced to executing “The real villain isn’t Marvel movies,” said “Nothing so needs a franchise’s latest installment. There’s nothing Michael Cavna in The Washington Post. It’s reforming as other wrong with “escapism,” said Mick LaSalle in the trends in the movie industry that Scorsese cor- people’s habits.” San Francisco Chronicle. But movies about super- rectly calls “inhospitable to art.” Audiences are Mark Twain, quoted in The Times (U.K.) human characters battling cartoonish bad guys increasingly inclined to stay home and watch “Don’t ever think while blowing up stuff are little more than “junk streaming services, splurging on expensive movie you’ve succeeded. Always try to do better— food for the spirit.” tickets only to see splashy, high-tech blockbusters. otherwise, drop dead.” For studios and theater owners, the dominance Conductor Arturo Toscanini, quoted in ArtsJournal.com Scorsese concedes he “hasn’t even seen the films of bankable “sequels, remakes, and existing intel- “Sex: In America an he’s talking about,” said Kyle Smith in National lectual properties” is more of “a financial survival obsession. In other parts Review.com. It shows. Although the climactic tactic” than “an aesthetic choice.” For the arty of the world a fact.” fight scenes still tend to be “dutiful and rote,” the movies Scorsese cherishes, such as his new film Marlene Dietrich, quoted in GoodReads.com best of this genre’s movies are “rich with ideas,” The Irishman, “fans will simply wait” until it’s Poll watch complex emotions, and character development. available on Netflix. Q53% of Americans say The whistleblower: Should his name be revealed? the identity of the whistle- blower in the Ukraine mat- Getty President Trump and his allies are on a “witch argument that the impeachment inquiry is part ter should remain private, hunt” of their own, said Sophia Nelson in The of the “rolling coup” against him. Unconfirmed while 47% think the iden- DailyBeast.com. Republicans are obsessed with reports identify the whistleblower as a CIA ana- tity should be revealed. naming and shaming the whistleblower who lyst, registered Democrat, and card-carrying mem- 75% of Republicans think tipped off Congress about the July 25 phone ber of the “deep state.” During the Obama admin- the whistleblower’s mo- call in which the president attempted to extort istration, he worked closely with former Vice tive was to “damage” Ukraine into launching investigations that would President Joe Biden as well as former CIA director President Trump, while help his re-election. Federal law protects govern- John Brennan, a bitter foe of Trump’s. The public 68% of Democrats say it ment employees who expose wrongdoing from has a right to know “who set the impeachment was to protect the country. retaliation, with whistleblower protections going fires burning,” said William McGurn in The Wall 52% of Americans say the back to the country’s founding. But Trump has Street Journal. This inquiry is illegitimate unless Democrats are not han- been attacking the whistleblower for weeks, while we hear public testimony from the whistleblower dling the impeachment Sen. Rand Paul has called on the media to “do and determine his motives. inquiry well, while 56% your job and print his name.” A few conservative think Trump is handling publications have printed a name, putting the per- Actually, the whistleblower’s identity and motives the inquiry poorly. son’s safety at risk. Since the whistleblower came are “irrelevant,” said Paul Waldman in The Wash- forward, multiple people with direct knowledge ington Post. He’s like an anonymous tipster who CBS News of the call have confirmed his account. Trump’s called the police to report a bank robbery in prog- defenders have no answer for this, so they’re creat- ress. If the police go the bank and find masked THE WEEK November 22, 2019 ing a diversionary attack on a public servant. bandits holding sacks of cash, they’ll charge the guilty parties. By now, multiple high-level officials Don’t fear for the whistleblower, said Ben Wein- have testified about Trump’s efforts “to strong-arm garten in TheFederalist.com. “Should he leave Ukraine into helping his re-election campaign.” public office, he will resign as a Resistance hero,” Republicans might argue it wasn’t impeachable and he’ll probably get hired by CNN. The only conduct. “But they can’t claim it didn’t happen, reason Democrats and their media allies are pro- and no amount of shouting about the whistle- tecting his identity is because it supports Trump’s blower will change that.”

18 NEWS Technology Flying cars: A worldwide race for the skies The race to introduce the first commer- “There are several hurdles before com- cial flying taxi is officially on, said Adam muters are whizzing through the air,” said Satariano in The New York Times. Uber, Dalvin Brown in USA Today. Many of the Google, Boeing, and Porsche are among vehicles now being imagined require “magi- 20 companies “testing their machines, lay- cal electric batteries that don’t exist—yet.” ing the groundwork for wider production,” The best that anyone can do right now and starting to lobby government officials to with an electric battery is 20 minutes of bring autonomous all-electric vehicles into flight. An even bigger obstacle is gaining the skies in just a few years. Lilium, a Ger- approval from the FAA, which has strict man startup, has raised more than $100 mil- compliance guidelines for small aircraft, lion from investors. Its prototype jet—which and the National Highway Traffic Safety is still seeking certification from European Lilium’s pilotless jet, in an artist’s rendering Administration. regulators—looks “less like a Jetsons-like fly- ing car than a glider, with a carbon fiber body and 36-foot wing- That’s why the first practical commercial tests of drone taxis are span.” But it’s purportedly capable of taking off and landing verti- likely to be outside the U.S., said Jeremy Bogaisky in Forbes.com. *Naresh Jariwala* cally, like a helicopter, and is quiet enough “to land in some areas “EHang became the first company to receive approval from Lilium, Jonathan Banks for Microsoft traditionally off-limits to aircraft”—even midtown Manhattan. Chinese aviation regulators to establish a pilot air-taxi service,” in Guangzhou, known for its “crushing traffic congestion.” Just one problem: The proliferation of air vehicles over New York Though the service hasn’t yet started, EHang is already trying to already represents a “clear and present danger to public safety,” go public with a $100 million stock offering. To make a go of it said Michael McDowell in New York magazine. New York City in the U.S., air taxi companies will need much more than that. skies are filled with helicopters, from Uber and smaller companies “Taking a small conventional aircraft through the regulatory such as Blade. Since 1983, “there have been at least 30 helicopter forest of safety certification to production can cost $75 million crashes in the city.” In other places, unmanned drones are already to $100 million”—and those are vehicles that regulators already creating tension in the skies, said James Leggate in FoxBusiness understand. One source of cash: auto companies trying hard to .com. Earlier this month, fire-department helicopters battling wild- “future-proof” themselves. Ford and General Motors are already fires in Los Angeles had to halt for hours because of hobby drones “believed to be spending about $1 billion a year” on research shooting video of the scene. and development for autonomous vehicles. Innovation of the week Bytes: What’s new in tech Microsoft Saudi spies infiltrate Twitter 20-month investigation into the incident. “De- has created spite the fact that the car detected” the woman a way to Two former Twitter employees were charged almost six seconds before striking her, it first store data by the Justice Department with spying on be- “classified her as a vehicle. Then it changed its for thou- half of Saudi Arabia, said Aruna Viswanatha mind to ‘other,’ then to vehicle again, back to sands of and Betsy Morris in The Wall Street Journal. ‘other,’ then to bicycle, then to ‘other’ again, years in a One, Ahmad Abouammo, was arrested in and finally back to bicycle.” It wasn’t until square of Seattle last week “and is accused of trying 1.2 seconds before the impact that the system quartz glass, to obtain personal information about Saudi realized “it couldn’t steer around her.” The said Marc DeAngelis in Engadget Arabia’s critics,” including the email address of SUV was traveling 43.5 mph when it hit her. .com. The Project Silica glass plates, one “prominent critic of the Saudi royal fam- etched with infrared lasers, remain ily” with more than 1 million Twitter follow- Finding your consumer score readable “even after baking them ers. The second, a former website maintenance in ovens, dunking them in boiling worker, Ali Alzabarah, allegedly used his cre- “As consumers, we all have ‘secret scores’: water, heating them in microwaves, dentials to access “over 6,000 Twitter accounts hidden ratings that determine how long each and scratching them with steel in 2015 on behalf of the Saudi government.” of us waits on hold when calling a business, wool.” The glass may be an ideal A third Saudi national, Ahmed Almutairi, was whether we can return items at a store, and medium for “cold storage” of data also charged for his role in persuading the men what type of service we receive,” said Kashmir that needs to be kept for a long to access the information, paying them with Hill in The New York Times. These “e-scores” time but rarely accessed. As a proof cash and, in at least one case, a watch. are often believed to be inaccessible, but I got of concept, Microsoft partnered with mine from a company called Sift and “I found Warner Bros.—which, like other Uber software ignored pedestrians it shocking.” It was more than 400 pages long studios, has struggled with ways and “contained all the messages I’d ever sent to maintain archival copies of its Uber’s self-driving vehicles weren’t designed to hosts on Airbnb” and “years of Yelp deliv- recordings—to etch a digital version to recognize a pedestrian outside a crosswalk, ery orders.” Sift is not the only company “in of the original Superman film onto said Aarian Marshall and Alex Davies in the business of scoring customers” and then a single glass plate. The process Wired.com. Federal investigators found that selling that data to clients. Five of them—Sift, took a week, and “the technology the software inside the autonomous Uber SUV Zeta Global, Retail Equation, Riskified, and still needs to mature” as engineers that killed an Arizona woman last year “did Kustomer—will share the data they have on you build a standard device to read and not include a consideration for jaywalking pe- if you contact them or fill out an online form. write the data. destrians.” U.S. regulators are in the midst of a THE WEEK November 22, 2019

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20 NEWS Health & Science How measles hurts the immune system The measles infection is far more harm- out 11 percent to 73 percent of the chil- Measles leaves kids vulnerable to other diseases. ful than scientists previously thought, dren’s antibodies, which provide protec- reports NPR.org. The virus itself can cause tion against an array of viruses and bac- difficult to measure.” Researchers note a severe and sometimes fatal illness, but teria. (Similar tests in vaccinated children that the introduction of the measles vac- two new studies suggest it can also wipe found no loss of antibodies.) Scientists cine in the 1960s was followed by a sharp out patients’ immune systems—leaving call this effect “immune amnesia.”The decline in deaths from other childhood them vulnerable to dangerous infections immune system essentially forgets what diseases—a shift that could reverse if vac- such as flu and pneumonia for months it needs to do to fight colds, flu, stomach cination rates continue to decline. and possibly years. For the studies, bugs, and other illnesses, including ill- researchers examined blood samples from nesses for which the person has been 77 children in the Netherlands who went vaccinated. “Measles is much more than unvaccinated for religious reasons. The a rash,” says Harvard Medical School’s samples were taken before and after the Michael Mina, who led one of the studies. kids contracted the disease during a 2013 “It’s got these very long-term, stealth-like outbreak. They found that measles wiped detrimental effects that are extraordinarily The probe is now outside the solar system. *Naresh Jariwala* Seaweed for Alzheimer’s? had a 30 percent lower risk of dying from cardiovascular problems, and a 23 percent Voyager 2’s interstellar report Getty, NASA/JPL-Caltech, GettyChinese regulators have conditionally reduced risk of dying from cancer. More approved a new seaweed-based treatment surprisingly, those who ran longer distances After a 10 billion–mile journey lasting for Alzheimer’s—a potential breakthrough or at a faster pace didn’t see their risk 42 years, Voyager 2 is now in interstellar that has been greeted with both enthusi- decline any further—just 50 minutes of space. The NASA probe is the second ever asm and caution. In a clinical trial involv- jogging a week was enough. Running has to travel beyond the heliosphere—the vast ing 818 people, the drug, Oligomannate, long been linked with an array of health bubble of supersonic charged particles that improved cognitive function in patients benefits, in particular reductions in blood shoot out from the sun—having crossed the with mild to moderate Alzheimer’s. The pressure, cholesterol levels, and weight. “If threshold six years after its twin, Voyager 1. researchers say the benefits were apparent you are physically inactive and don’t have Data sent back from those crossings has within just four weeks of starting treat- much time on your hands for exercise,” provided scientists with the most detailed ment and endured throughout the 36-week lead author Zeljko Pedisic tells ABCNews look yet at the outer limits of our solar sys- trial. The drug’s approval means it can go .com, “running might just be the right tem. One big finding is that the heliosphere on sale in China while further trials are activity for you.” appears to have a spherical shape; some carried out there, but clinical trials in the models had suggested it would be shaped U.S. and Europe aren’t scheduled to start Health scare of the week more like a windsock, with a tail floating until 2020. Its developers say a sugar in Only children and obesity behind as it raced through the galaxy. The seaweed helps suppress bacteria in the gut data also expands our understanding of that can cause degeneration and inflamma- Only children are seven times more likely the “heliosheath”—the outer region of the tion of the brain. But many scientists in the to be obese than those with siblings, new heliosphere where charged particles from U.S. and Europe remain skeptical, noting research suggests. In a small study, research- the sun pile up against interstellar wind that trials in the West typically last longer ers examined the eating habits and weight coming the other way. Contrary to some and are larger. “It’s good to see that drug of what they called “singletons.” They scientific belief, the heliosphere’s solar wind regulators in China are prioritizing emerg- found that these children tended to have doesn’t gradually fade away—the interstel- ing treatments for Alzheimer’s,” Carol less healthy eating and drinking habits than lar boundary is marked by a sudden drop Routledge, a British Alzheimer’s researcher, kids in larger families. The study didn’t in temperature and a sharp increase in tells Scientific American. “But we do still prove cause and effect. But the research- density. Designed to last only four years, need to see more evidence that ers did note that the mothers of only chil- the twin Voyager spacecraft are expected to this drug is safe and effective.” keep functioning for another five. “When dren were more likely to be overweight the two Voyagers were launched, the space Running for a long life themselves—suggesting that they may age was only 20 years old,” project scientist be passing down their poor dietary Edward Stone tells The New York Times. Going for a run just once a week habits to their singletons. Lead author “It was hard to know at that time that any- could be enough to sig- Chelsea Kracht, from Louisiana thing could last over 40 years.” nificantly cut your risk of State University, says that biological early death. Researchers factors could also be in play, and at Victoria University in that only children may be less active Melbourne looked at 14 stud- because they don’t have a playmate ies that examined the links between under the same roof. Meal planning running and mortality. That data might also be an influence. “With mul- set included more than 230,000 tiple children, you’re scheduling a little people, whose health was tracked bit more of your meals,” Kracht tells for up to 35 years. The research- CNN.com. “So we’re going to ers found that the people who have more at-home did any running at all were meals. We’re prob- 27 percent less likely to suffer ably going to have a premature death. Runners less fast food.” THE WEEK November 22, 2019

Pick of the week’s cartoons NEWS 21 *Naresh Jariwala* For more political cartoons, visit: www.theweek.com/cartoons. THE WEEK November 22, 2019

22 ARTS Review of reviews: Books Book of the week Did a scam destroy our mental health system? into a suburban Philadelphia mental hospi- tal, he’d reported a series of more troubling The Great Pretender: while urging serious reform in how we treat symptoms. Some statistics in the study had The Undercover Mission the mentally ill. no backup reporting. And most worryingly, That Changed Our she was able to identify two other study Understanding of Madness At first, Cahalan’s research went smoothly, participants: one whose positive experience said Emily Eakin in The New York Times. was excluded and another whose experi- by Susannah Cahalan (Grand Central, $28) Rosenhan, who died in 2012, had left ence was more positive than Rosenhan his files, including a 200-page incomplete reported. Cahalan concludes it’s possible In 1973, psychologist David Rosenhan manuscript, with a colleague. But troubling that all six other subjects were invented. published a paper that “shook the world of discrepancies in Rosenhan’s work quickly psychiatry to its core,” said Michael Schaub emerged. His study said that each pseudo- “Even so, the accuracy of Rosenhan’s in NPR.org. Rosenhan had assembled patient had complained of a single symp- study comes to matter less than its con- eight accounts of healthy subjects who had tom: hearing voices that said “hollow,” sequences,” said Naina Bajekal in Time. presented themselves at mental hospitals “empty,” and “thud.” But his own medical In the wake of its alarmist claims and the throughout the country and been held file indicated that when he was admitted resulting shuttering of mental hospitals, for days and even weeks. The resulting *Naresh Jariwala* the number of patients in such institutions uproar led to the closing of many mental fell by half nationwide within a decade. institutions, and when journalist Susannah Cahalan writes that today the U.S. has Cahalan learned of the episode years later, 95,000 fewer beds for mental patients than she was inclined to trust the famous exposé. are needed, and that many of our mentally But Cahalan, who is both a dogged reporter ill have wound up in prisons. Though her and an “absolutely incredible” writer, dis- descriptions of 19th-century asylums are covered as she examined the details that disturbing, “Today, it’s worse,” she writes. little of Rosenhan’s study could be backed “We don’t even pretend the places we’re up. Because of a misdiagnosis in her own putting sick people aren’t hellholes.” Had past, Cahalan is passionate about this story, Rosenhan never published his study, per- but she’s channeled her outrage into a book haps our mental health system would be that “reads, in parts, like a suspense novel” both more effective and more humane. Novel of the week In the Dream House: A Memoir several years ago with a charismatic fellow Getty creative writing student shortly after they Nothing to See Here by Carmen Maria Machado met and fell in love. But in this fairy tale, “the idyllic soon turns ugly.” Machado’s by Kevin Wilson (Graywolf, $26) lover begins displaying flashes of anger and possessiveness, erupting in profanity and (Ecco, $27) “Welcome to the throwing things. She belittles and plays House of Machado; mind games with the author. At one point, “To love a child is to get burned from enjoy the view as the Machado barricades herself in the bath- time to time,” said Ron Charles in The floor gives way,” said room as her pursuer pounds the door. Washington Post. But the combustibil- Parul Sehgal in The ity of the 10-year-old twins in Kevin New York Times. Machado, who escaped the relation- Wilson’s wonderful third novel is not In her new mem- ship in May 2012, doesn’t pull off all of just metaphorical. His narrator, a broke oir, the “blazingly the maneuvers she tries here, said Katy 28-year-old, has been hired by an old talented” Carmen Waldman in NewYorker.com. In one friend from prep school, now married Maria Machado puts chapter, she muses on famous Disney vil- to a Tennessee senator nominated to her own twist on lainesses while imagining that her memoir be U.S. secretary of state, to look after the haunted-house will be attacked for demonizing a gay the couple’s grade-schoolers. The catch? trope—and many others—while examining woman. But “Machado is taking huge The kids burst into flames when upset— from all angles a same-sex relationship that formal risks,” and more often than not she never hurting themselves but scorching turned abusive. The book is “a hive of fre- triumphs. Few stories of queer domestic their surroundings. Despite its fantasti- netic experimentation, tactics, and tricks,” abuse exist, she writes, both because of cal premise, said Jenny Shank in the with each of its chapters taking a different historic constraints and because of a reluc- Minneapolis Star Tribune, Nothing to genre form: horror story, sci-fi, even stoner tance in the LGBTQ community to share See Here “conveys more emotional truth comedy. It’s as if Machado were “holding a unflattering portraits. In order to make about life with a difficult kid than any ring of keys, trying each of them in turn to sense of what happened to her, Machado parenting guides.” It also satirizes the unlock a resistant story.” must invent ways to describe it. Her shift- rich for their habit of throwing money ing perspectives and approaches “achieve a at any problem—even at the expense of Don’t let the experimentation scare you full, strange representation of the subject.” their own offspring. “In this funny and away, said Julia Klein in The Boston Globe. This is a book that recognizes “we are affecting novel,” Wilson has introduced “This is a stunning book, both deeply felt more than what happens to us; we are also one outlandish element to help us see and elegantly written.” The title refers, the scripts we use to imagine ourselves.” who we really are. at the simplest level, to a pretty house in Bloomington, Ind., that Machado shared THE WEEK November 22, 2019

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The Book List ARTS 23 Best books...chosen by Daniel José Older Author of the week Daniel José Older’s The Book of Lost Saints, a magic-realist epic about a Cuban- Ken Follett American family, is his first non-Y.A. novel. Below, the prize-winning author of Shadowshaper touts six books whose protagonists are “trapped in the in-between.” When Notre-Dame reopens, count Ken Follett among the Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi (2018). Emezi’s an epidemic of suicides. Snow is a thriller that many artisans who erected debut is a gorgeous and triumphant novel about feels deeply intimate and melancholy even when it, said Alex Green in The surviving, healing, finding the self, and transcen- it soars. Independent (U.K.). The dence. The prose itself feels like a character, it’s best-selling British author so alive. And the format—this is a story told by The Famished Road by Ben Okri (1991). cried last April 15 when he the various Igbo spirits that inhabit our half- Okri’s sprawling, Booker Prize–winning epic turned on his television to see Nigerian protagonist—is everything I’ve ever about a kid caught between life and death in wanted from a book. Nigeria is unruly and brilliant in all the right Paris’ great ways, with prose that seems to run and shimmy cathedral in The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle off the page. flames. And (2016). This is one of my favorite examples of a when the novel that critically remixes the canon. LaValle Season of Migration to the North main struc- takes one of H.P. Lovecraft’s most horrific by Tayeb Salih (1966). This is a creepy, beauti- ture survived and racist tales—1924’s “The Horror at Red ful, complex story of longing and loss from one the blaze, Hook”—and injects it with a heart and new life of Sudan’s pre-eminent writers, centered on one he quickly by adding the perspective of a new character, a man’s confession to another. Stirring prose and committed to young black hustler named Tommy Tester. A tale a quiet musicality bring the novel’s eerie mys- help raise restoration funds about an occult presence in an immigrant New tery to life. by writing a tribute to the York City neighborhood becomes something 1163 Gothic wonder. Follett, rebellious and ferocious—a masterpiece. Of Water and the Spirit: Ritual, Magic and 70, had been an expert the Initiation in the Life of an African Shaman media turned to when the Snow by Orhan Pamuk (2002). This is a haunt- by Malidoma Patrice Somé (1994). Somé was blaze struck because his best- ing novel about a haunted man. Ka, a poet, abducted as a child by Jesuits, and in this known book, Pillars of the lives in a small Turkish town near the Armenian memoir he gives us the story of his return to Earth, is possibly the world’s border where a local college’s mandate for his village in Burkina Faso as an adult, and the best-selling book about a women to remove their head scarves has led to spiritual journey of his return to himself. This is cathedral. To write that 1989 a gorgeous, deeply necessary book. historical novel, Follett had *Naresh Jariwala* climbed into the rafters of a Also of interest...in counterintuitive ideas few medieval cathedrals, so he knew the attic as a rare The Case for Nationalism Females weakness. Still, the collapse of Notre-Dame’s roof shocked by Rich Lowry (Broadside, $27) by Andrea Long Chu (Verso, $13) him. “In the life of every boy there is a painful moment Consider this book “part of a larger “Everyone is female,” writes Andrea when he realizes that his effort on the right to create an after- Long Chu, “and everyone hates it.” father is not all-powerful and the-fact framework for Trumpism,” The essayist, a young trans woman invulnerable,” he says. “The said Carlos Lozada in The Wash- who’s among our most original think- fall of the spire made me ington Post. In “a selective reading ers on gender, is clearly “less interested think of that moment.” of history,” Rich Lowry, editor of in exhaustive explanation than in the the National Review, argues that the ideals of flash of insight produced by a well-thrown knife,” Follett required only a week 1776 did less to shape the American project than said Julian Lucas in Harper’s. But in this slim to produce Notre-Dame, an what he calls “the religio-cultural attributes” of book, she finds common ground among Freud, 80-page tribute and current the land’s European settlers. The rest is simply anti-porn feminists, and incels by amusingly best-seller, said Gregory facile. In this book, “nationalism cannot be bad, showing how they—and all of us—feminize our- McNamee in Kirkus Reviews. because Lowry has defined it as good.” selves by accommodating to the desires of others. “It was written,” he says, “in the heat of the moment.” John Midgley, Olivier Favre In Defense of Elitism Self-Portrait in Black and White His work earned him a June tour of the cathedral, dur- by Joel Stein (Grand Central, $28) by Thomas Chatterton Williams (Norton, $26) ing which he learned that because today’s trees aren’t Don’t let the title fool you, said Alec Thomas Chatterton Williams has a robust enough to support the Dent in the Washington Free Beacon. funny way of advocating a post-racial vast roof, the new beams will Instead of looking down on his fel- world, said Cinque Henderson in the consist of steel or even plas- low Americans from a snob’s redoubt, Los Angeles Review of Books. Here, tic. “It will not be visible,” he former Time columnist Joel Stein has the U.S.-born, Paris-based scholar says, “so in a sense it doesn’t written “one of the most nuanced and describes how the birth of his blond, really matter.” He came away introspective takes on populism” since the 2016 blue-eyed daughter taught him to rethink his own optimistic, though, that the election. Not that he stops with what he learned black self-identification. We have an obsession French might just complete by listening to Trump supporters in northern with race, he says, and should eagerly move past the restoration as soon as Texas. He critiques populism for putting too it, including through interracial marriage. But 2024, in time for the Paris much trust in primal instincts, but also helps his wait: “Can someone who has written his only two Olympics. “If anyone can do fellow blue staters understand its appeal. books on race really claim to have overcome it?” it,” he says, “they can.” THE WEEK November 22, 2019

24 ARTS Review of reviews: Film & Music Ford v Ferrari Christian Bale and Matt Ken Miles as his driver and engi- Directed by Damon’s thrilling new auto- neer, Bale steps in and proves James Mangold racing adventure “practically “more than game.” Sure, it’s all (PG-13) begs to be called ‘the kind of formulaic—but with a few “fas- ++++ movie people don’t make any- cinating upgrades,” said David A 1966 race pushes two friends to their limit. more,’” said K. Austin Collins Edelstein in NYMag.com. One in VanityFair.com. Based on of the canniest is highlighting the a real-life 1966 showdown, it gap between the suits and the delivers every component of an working-class adrenaline junkies. old-Hollywood formula: “taking Damon and Bale: Old-time action heroes Another is making the gearheads a big story, giving it a fair bud- incredibly smart—“as versed in get, casting genuine stars in roles that don’t require physics as any Star Trek android.” Though the rac- capes, and simply entertaining the s--- out of us.” ing action is gripping, it’d be a mistake to think Ford Damon plays ex-racer Carroll Shelby, who is hired v Ferrari is for car buffs only, said Anthony Lane in by stodgy Ford Motors to build a car that can beat The New Yorker. “It’s a film about pride—and the a Ferrari at Le Mans. When Shelby picks hotheaded craziness that flares up whenever pride gets hurt.” Waves “Waves is the kind of movie myself gripped to the seat,” said Directed by that punches you in the gut Benjamin Lee in TheGuardian Trey Edward Shults *Naresh Jariwala* and then slashes your Achilles .com. Once Kelvin Harrison Jr.’s (R) as you reach for your stom- Tyler hits bottom, though, the ++++ ach,” said Sean Fennessey in movie changes focus suddenly to A family tries to rebound from tragedy. TheRinger.com. “Then, as you his quiet sister. And though she’s fall, it catches you in its arms.” played by an “extremely engag- A stunning drama about an ing” Taylor Russell, the tonal upper-middle-class black family shift is so abrupt that the film in Florida, it focuses initially on Harrison endures Brown’s coaching. “never really recovers.” Actually, an 18-year-old who’s pushed it’s that “grace-filled” second act by his father (a “hulking, stentorian” Sterling K. that sets Waves apart, said Alissa Wilkinson in Vox Brown) to excel at school and on the wrestling mat. .com. It reminds us how radical forgiveness can be The young man succeeds—until a shoulder injury because sometimes we are granted it even when we sidelines him and triggers a downward spiral. The don’t deserve it. This “sounds like hyperbole, but I movie “begins with such confidence that I found mean it: You walk out with a weary, cleansed soul.” FKA Twigs Michael Kiwanuka Sudan Archives 20th Century Fox, A24 Magdalene Kiwanuka Athena ++++ ++++ ++++ “FKA Twigs has never “It’s been thrilling to Sudan Archives “has been weirder; she’s also watch Michael Kiwa- liberated herself from never been catchier,” nuka blossom,” said any preset expecta- said Spencer Kornhaber Greg Kot in the Chicago tions,” said Allison in TheAtlantic.com. On Tribune. The British Hussey in Pitchfork her second full-length singer-songwriter of .com. On two EPs that album and first in five Ugandan heritage she’s released in the years, the 31-year-old became an unlikely star past two years, the British pop avant-gardist again “sings in when HBO’s Big Little Lies used his sym- Cincinnati-raised, L.A.-based singer and highly mannered trills reminiscent of opera” phonic “Cold Little Heart” as its mournful violinist had used a mix of hip-hop beats, against a musical backdrop that “warps theme song. That hit came from Kiwanuka’s lilting R&B melodies, and fiddling inspired the syncopated grooves, rap flows, and sophomore effort, Love & Hate, which by Sudanese and Ghanaian traditions to electronic jolts of modern pop.” But on a stretched his melancholy mix of folk and create such earworm singles as “Come record that acts out a struggle to love, lose, soul to create “wide-screen epics dusted Meh Way” and “Nont for Sale.” But now and recover in the public eye and that often with strings and acid-rock guitar solos.” the same tool kit is being used to create “pushes to new extremities of silence, slow- Kiwanuka’s third album further expands music that’s deeper, broader, and stranger. ness, and experimentalism,” she also works the sound while the singer grapples with “The bass scoops lower, the grooves get in show tune–worthy melodies and a strong doubts about himself and the world. “His funkier,” and the artist’s layered violin closing piano ballad. “The album often feels voice remains plaintive, understated, deeply tracks “give the illusion of a full orches- like a desperate prayer, flung toward the textured, but there’s a resolve that wasn’t tra.” All in all, “it’s a rare thrill to hear an sky,” said Madison Vain in Esquire.com. “At as evident on his earlier work.” If you’re not artist making leaps and bounds in such its darkest, it’s an entrancing testimony to in the mood for the “languorous introspec- a short span of time.” Though the fiddle the overwhelming powers of anger (‘Fallen tion” of “Solid Ground,” skip straight to parts are often at least as infectious as the Alien’), loneliness (‘Mirrored Heart’), and “Hard to Say Goodbye” for “1960s-style cooing vocals, the two swirl together on self-doubt (‘Cellophane’).” It also maps a orchestral cinematics,” said Kitty Empire in “Confessions,” the album’s lead single, twisting path to emancipation from her past, The Observer (U.K.). The album’s “border- said Ryan Leas in Stereogum.com. “These though, and when the elements of her idio- line psychedelic shimmer” is its greatest songs will weave their way into your mind syncratic music click, “the results aren’t just strength; its only weakness is that Kiwanuka with the same elusive rhythms of a trickling holy, they’re downright heavenly.” “could have been even braver.” river or dancing flames.” THE WEEK November 22, 2019

Television ARTS 25 Movies on TV The Week’s guide to what’s worth watching Monday, Nov. 18 *Naresh Jariwala*Ernie & Joe: Crisis Cops Out on the streets with Ernie & Joe Imperium In Texas, people don’t often call in the police when they need an empathetic ear. But Ernie down, following a political assassination, a cou- Daniel Radcliffe plays an FBI Stevens and Joe Smarro of the San Antonio Police ple and their infant child find themselves fighting agent who goes undercover Department aren’t typical patrol partners: They’re for survival in a world gone mad. Available for to infiltrate a group of white two of a handful of officers in the city who’ve streaming Friday, Nov. 22, Amazon Prime supremacists. (2016) 8 p.m., been specially trained to respond to various 911 the Movie Channel calls as mental health crises, bringing instant Ready for War counseling to scenarios that previously invited Since its founding, America has offered a short- Tuesday, Nov. 19 handcuffs and drawn guns. This dramatic film- cut to citizenship to immigrants who fight in its Wayne’s World festival documentary captures how difficult but wars. But today, immigrant veterans who commit rewarding the work can be. Tuesday, Nov. 19, at nonviolent crimes can be deported, despite having Mike Myers and Dana 9 p.m., HBO served in the U.S. military, and a countless num- Carvey were surprisingly ber have been dumped in Mexican border towns excellent as rock-obsessed Bikram: Yogi, Guru, Predator to fend for themselves. This documentary fol- dropouts Wayne and Garth The continued popularity of Bikram yoga—aka lows three such U.S. vets, including one who has in the big-screen version of hot yoga—might not survive the airing of this accepted lucrative employment as a hitman for a their popular Saturday Night damning documentary. The practice’s founder, drug cartel. Friday, Nov. 22, at 9 p.m., Showtime Live skit. (1992) 3:40 p.m., Bikram Choudhury, has so far escaped arrest Showtime stemming from sexual assault charges and unpaid Other highlights legal fees by fleeing the U.S., but this film tells the Mad About You Wednesday, Nov. 20 complete story of Choudhury’s rise and fall, giving Paul Reiser and Helen Hunt reunite for a McCabe & Mrs. Miller voice to multiple victims. Former students describe limited-series sequel to their hit 1990s sitcom a cultlike environment, ruled over by a yogi often about an enviable modern marriage. Available Warren Beatty and Julie dressed in nothing but a Speedo and a Rolex and for streaming Wednesday, Nov. 20, Spectrum Christie co-star in Robert as capable of bending minds as bodies. Available Altman’s revisionist West- for streaming Wednesday, Nov. 20, Netflix The Accident ern about a gambler and a In this dramatic four-part British import, parents brothel madam seeking to 2019 Democratic Presidential Debate seek justice after several teenagers in a small save their town from take- Ten Democratic hopefuls are expected to take the Welsh town are killed in an explosion. Available over by a mining firm. (1971) stage in Atlanta for the party’s latest presidential for streaming Friday, Nov. 22, Hulu 8 p.m., TCM two-hour talkfest. With Iowa’s early-February caucuses finally approaching, Joe Biden, Bernie 2019 American Music Awards Thursday, Nov. 21 Sanders, and Elizabeth Warren have separated Taylor Swift will be celebrated as the artist of the The Odd Couple from the pack without sending many of the decade on a night that will also feature perfor- stragglers home. Expect the leaders’ policies to mances by Lizzo, Selena Gomez, Billie Eilish, and Jack Lemmon and Walter get the longest airings. Wednesday, Nov. 20, at Dua Lipa. Sunday, Nov. 24, at 8 p.m., ABC Matthau create buddy- 9 p.m., MSNBC comedy magic as uptight Felix Unger and slovenly The Feed Oscar Madison, divorced Stretch a decent Black Mirror premise into a friends who become mis- full series and the result might look like this matched roommates. (1968) show based on a recent dystopian novel by Nick 8 p.m., Movieplex Clark Windo. In the near future, most everyone has stopped speaking because they share their Friday, Nov. 22 thoughts and experiences instantly via brain Nocturnal Animals implants connected to a social media network known as the Feed. But when the Feed goes In a prize-winning neo-noir HBO, Apple TV+ directed by fashion designer Steinfeld’s Emily, with Wiz Khalifa as Death Show of the week Tom Ford, Amy Adams plays a woman consumed Dickinson by a disturbing novel manu- script written by her ex- Was it Emily Dickinson or Selena Gomez who husband. Jake Gyllenhaal wrote “The heart wants what it wants”? That co-stars. (2016) 11:20 p.m., the answer is both feels entirely relevant to why Cinemax this series has sneakily emerged as the best original offering on Apple’s two-week-old stream- Saturday, Nov. 23 ing service. Sure, reimagining the reclusive 19th- Us century poet as a Gen Z–style queer feminist hero who takes opium at a house party and, yes, In Jordan Peele’s second twerks, is a bit gimmicky. But the series’ man- horror feature, an American nered mashup of epochs can win you over with family is confronted by its its clever writing, lush imagery, and (we’ll say it) murderous doppelgängers. transcendent performance from Hailee Steinfeld. (2019) 8 p.m., HBO Currently streaming on AppleTV+ Sunday, Nov. 24 Roman Holiday Gregory Peck and Audrey Hepburn make a delightful pair in the classic rom-com about a reporter and a prin- cess who enjoy an Italian fling. (1953) 8 p.m.,TCM • All listings are Eastern Time. THE WEEK November 22, 2019

26 LEISURE Food & Drink A Texas turkey: Bring on the chiles and warm pecan sauce The holiday dish below is adapted from *Naresh Jariwala*Rubbed, stuffed, and ready for the oven Tuck wings under turkey, then use string a remarkable 1929 cookbook, said to tie wings and legs close to body. Place Toni Tipton-Martin in Jubilee: Recipes Julie Soefer, Jennifer Chase/The New York Times/Redux2 tbsp minced onionthe bird, breast side up, in a roasting pan. From Two Centuries of African-American 2 tsp minced garlic Insert a meat thermometer into lower Cooking (Clarkson Potter). The author, 1 small Scotch bonnet pepper, minced part of thigh without touching the bone. Artaway Fillmore, developed the book’s 1 tbsp chile powder Fill neck and body cavity with apple, recipes while serving as chef at a hotel 1 tsp ground cumin carrots, 1 quartered onion, 4 smashed in Lubbock, Texas. “What draws me to ½ cup chopped toasted pecans garlic cloves, and 2 celery stalks, then use Fillmore’s fine-dining style? Flavors that skewers to close body cavity. Rub turkey are culturally and regionally familiar.” Preheat oven to 325. Remove giblets and all over with oil or butter, then with chile I recommend pairing this turkey with a neck from turkey. In a large saucepan, rub. Tent turkey with foil and roast, bast- side of cornbread dressing. combine 3 cups water with the giblets and ing with pan juices every 30 minutes, neck, plus 1 quartered onion, 1 quartered until internal temperature reaches 180, Recipe of the week stalk celery, 1 crushed garlic clove, ½ tsp 3 to 3½ hours. During final 30 minutes, Roast turkey with chile-pecan sauce salt, and ¼ tsp black pepper. Bring to a remove foil and cease basting, so skin boil, reduce heat to low, cover, and simmer will brown. Transfer turkey to a platter; To make chile rub: while turkey roasts. Add water as needed reserve drippings. In a small bowl, combine 2 tbsp paprika; to maintain liquid level. 1 tbsp each chile powder, ground cumin, To make sauce: Strain stock through a brown sugar, salt, and black pepper; and colander and reserve. Pour off and discard 1½ tsp each chipotle chile powder, dried all but 2 tbsp of turkey pan drippings, then oregano, garlic powder, and onion powder. place pan over medium-high heat. Add minced onion, garlic, and Scotch pepper For turkey and stock: and sauté until softened, about 1 minute. 1 (10–12 lb) turkey Sprinkle in chile powder and cumin; sauté 2 small onions, quartered 2 minutes. Gradually whisk reserved stock 3 celery stalks with leaves into pan in a slow, steady stream, scraping 5 large garlic cloves up brown bits. Cook until sauce is reduced 1 small apple, cored and quartered by a third, about 20 minutes. Stir in pecans 2 carrots, halved lengthwise and season to taste with salt and pepper. ¼ cup vegetable oil or melted butter Carve and present the turkey with the For chile-pecan sauce: sauce on the side. Serves 10 to 12. Wine: Thanksgiving saviors The D.C. melting pot: Three reasons to jump into the Swamp Picking wines for the Thanksgiving table Allow me to join the growing chorus of critics is challenging enough, however perfect the cooking, said Karla Alindahao in who finally are recognizing Washington, D.C., Forbes.com. But what if the turkey is ultradry—as it so often is? I asked som- as a great food city, said Brett Anderson in The melier Luke Sullivan for suggestions, New York Times. Though the nation’s capital and the Australian-born, NewYork City–based wine prodigy offered two has a reputation for catering to the bland tastes unusual ideas: 2016 Etienne Dupont Cidre Bouché of power brokers, “its personality lies in its Brut de Normandie ($16). This French multiculturalism.” Because D.C. has always sparkling cider “will have enough sweetness,” says Sullivan, “to keep attracted both wealth and immigrants, it is everyone’s minds off the dry turkey.” “particularly hospitable to new voices and in- 2017 Kracher Cuvée Auslese ($25 for 375 ml). This dessert wine from Bur- novations.” Below, three tone-setters. genland, Austria, is sweet as well. But it also has enough acidity—as well Poca Madre The concept is upscale Mexican, The casual charm of Poca Madre as notes of quince and peach—to be but chef Victor Albisu brings a “wide-angle vi- enjoyed throughout a long meal. Sullivan also favors fizzy dry red sion” of Latin American cooking to bear at his year-old restaurant in Chinatown. Albisu lambruscos for this particular holi- day, as does Wanda Mann, creator is the son of a Cuban father and Peruvian mother, and you might detect those influ- of a wine-travel website. “A nice chilled wine,” she says, “can save ences in Poca Madre’s whole duck, cooked al pastor, or in his deft use of chiles, citrus, the day and the meal.” and mole to draw out the flavors of seafood. 777 I St. NW, (202) 838-5300 Seven Reasons So many Washingtonians were traveling to Baltimore to enjoy Enrique Limardo’s cooking that he finally gave in to their requests that he move south. Build- ing on his success at Alma Cocina Latina, he shows “an impressive command over an array of influences,” including the Spanish, Indian, Chinese, and Italian strains in the cuisine of his native Venezuela. Think swordfish belly and trout roe served on a tostada over green mango salad. 2208 14th St. NW, (202) 417-8563 Thip Khao Chef Seng Luangrath now owns four restaurants in D.C. and its suburbs, with each location showcasing “the herbal, funky, often spicy cooking of her native Laos.” At her “stylishly casual” café in Columbia Heights, don’t miss the red goat curry, “famous for its furnace-blast heat.” 3462 14th St. NW, (202) 387-5426 THE WEEK November 22, 2019

Travel LEISURE 27 This week’s dream: Tunisia, North Africa’s democratic oasis Visiting Tunis today, “it’s hard to imag- memorable meal at a roadside stall, ine there was ever a time when the where I talked to a young entre- city didn’t feel so uninhibited,” said preneur who spoke excitedly about Sebastian Modak in The New York Tunisia’s future but was there for Times. The cosmopolitan capital where lablabi—bread smothered with chick- the Arab Spring democracy movement peas, spiced broth, and chili paste, began nine years ago has been reborn “the kind of comfort food you can since the ouster of dictator Zine el- just eat and eat.” Abidine Ben Ali. Young Tunisian artists and entrepreneurs have returned from Nothing topped the days and abroad in droves, and though the coun- nights I spent in Tunis’ medina. The try’s recent presidential election didn’t 1,300-year-old heart of the city is seem to electrify the populace, optimism so dense and labyrinthine that taxi is in the air. The energy is particularly drivers refuse to enter. Luckily, I was noticeable in Gammarth, a Tunis sub- Tunisians unwind on a rooftop near the medina’s bell tower. given an impromptu tour by a local urb “so packed with bars, it resembles who showed me mosques, madrasas, a theme park for adults.” I make friends side town of Sidi Bou Said, where the build- music schools, and mausoleums, which *Naresh Jariwala* quickly at a nightclub where everyone is ings’ white-and-blue color scheme can make still draw the Muslim faithful and seem to dancing like nobody’s watching. “This you think you’re in Greece. After popping occupy every other corner. Cats were also would never have happened so openly even into galleries and sipping tea at a rooftop everywhere, even hiding in gaps between 10 years ago,” one reveler shouted to me. café, I walked all the way to Carthage—the bricks. “Cats are the soul of this city,” my famous ancient city destroyed and then guide said. “The place is full of secrets— “Tunisia has a bit of everything, from rebuilt by the Romans. I saw all its sights I think they know them all.” Roman ruins to beach resorts.” I started my in a day but “could easily have returned for At Sidi Bou Said’s Villa Kahina (kahina trip in Tunis’ outskirts, in the popular sea- repeat visits.” Once in Tunis, I enjoyed a villa.com), rooms start at $149. Hotel of the week Getting the flavor of... Celebrating Louis Sullivan Fall in the Eastern Sierra Iowa’s monument to mound builders Hotel Saint Louis “I wish October were 90 days long,” said Chris “Iowa has a reputation for being flat and Erskine in the Los Angeles Times. 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30 Best properties on the market This week:Victorian Stick-style homes *Naresh Jariwala* 1 W Oakland The 1885 DeRome House shares its Paradise Park property with a 2003 duplex. The seven- bedroom main house has four fireplaces, pocket doors, bay windows, carved wood, and a Parisian attic atelier. The duplex units, a studio and a one-bedroom, have high ceilings, polished concrete floors, and clerestory windows below shed roofs. The lot includes private yards, gardens, and two resident goats, Tulip and Banjo. $2,800,000. Kathleen Wilson, Red Oak Realty, (510) 919-1712 23 56 1 4 2 W Downer’s Grove, Ill. The 1890 Tillie Kinney House has been restored and updated, with a new roof added in 2018. The four- bedroom home features hardwood floors throughout, 10-foot ceil- ings, original wood trim and moldings, leaded front-door windows, updated kitchen, sun porch, and walk-up attic. French doors lead to the front porch, and in back is a deck with a pergola. $572,500. Vicki Whipple, Platinum Partners Realtors, (630) 430-7650 3 X Marquette, Mich. This 1882 seven-bedroom home retains its original woodwork, hardwood floors, fireplace treatments, stained glass, and chandeliers. The two-room kitchen is updated, and the lower level includes a kitchenette, sitting room, and private en- trance. The property, two blocks from Lake Superior, has lawns, gardens, a lap pool, and a three-car garage with potential living space. $599,000. Carol Vining Moore, eXp Realty of Marquette, (906) 360-2633 THE WEEK November 22, 2019

Best properties on the market 31 4 X Nyack, N.Y. The Bennett- Deyrup House once belonged to Alvin Johnson, who co- founded the New School for Social Research and helped save 200 German-Jewish professors in the 1930s. The 1887 six-bedroom home has lincrusta ceilings and walls; stained-glass windows; eight fireplaces, four with original tiling; zoned air and heat; and a sound system and home theater. Outside are a pergola, gardens, and a lawn leading down to the Hudson River. $4,395,000. Richard Ellis, Ellis Sotheby’s International Realty, (914) 393-0438 *Naresh Jariwala* Steal of the week Wingerham52 5 S Eureka, Calif. This four-bedroom home, built in 1887, 6 S Hastings, Mich. Called the features high ceilings, crown molding, original door hard- handsomest house in Hastings ware, and period-specific embossed wallpaper. Other details in its early days, this 1885 include a living room fireplace with the original carved Stick-style–Queen Anne hybrid mantel, a library bay window, a private entrance to the first- began as a private home, then floor bedroom, and a third-story cupola with ocean and city became the town’s first hospi- views. The corner lot has a patio, yard, and two-car garage. tal, then a convalescent home. Restored as a five-bedroom, single- $499,000. Jeff Ragan, Ming Tree Realtors, (707) 269-4389 family house, it features quarter-sawn oak and ornate butternut woodwork, pocket doors, built-ins, three fireplaces, and a turret. Outside are front and back porches, lawns, and mature trees. $349,900, Doug Takens, Independence Realty, (616) 262-4574 THE WEEK November 22, 2019

32 BUSINESS The news at a glance The bottom line Entertainment: Disney’s big bet on streaming Q The median age of first- The much-anticipated Disney+ This is “the most important time home buyers jumped to 33 from July 2018 to June streaming service stumbled out product launch in Bob Iger’s 2019, the oldest since the Na- tional Association of Realtors of the gate this week as high 15 years as CEO,” said began keeping records in 1981. Meanwhile, the median demand overwhelmed the plat- Devin Leonard in Bloomberg age of all homebuyers rose to 47, up from just 31 in 1981. form, said Brooks Barnes and Businessweek. Iger’s first Investor’s Business Daily Nancy Coleman in The New idea to compete with stream- Q In a survey of 2,000 view- York Times. Aiming to “offer ers “was to buy Twitter.” ers, Americans said they are willing to spend up to $44 a complete library of Disney, Fortunately, he reconsidered, monthly on streaming video. That is up roughly $14 from Pixar, Star Wars, and Marvel Disney’s unbeatable character lineup and now says he feels relief what most people pay now. movies,” Disney+ arrived with “every day” that the merger However, nearly 1 in 3 Netflix subscribers said they would “every trumpet in the Magic Kingdom blowing on didn’t happen. Disney’s initial cord-cutting efforts, likely cancel the service in the next three months. its behalf.” For the first time this year, worldwide ESPN+ and Hulu, have been money losers. The Wall Street Journal streaming subscriber numbers, 613 million, exceed But Disney+ is different. A series of “10-figure Q Hedge fund manager Jim cable customers (556 million); for Disney the purchases”—Pixar, Marvel, and Lucasfilm—made Simons’ Medallion Fund has *Naresh Jariwala* generated annual returns of rollout is a “transformative event,” untethering it Disney Hollywood’s most successful movie com- 39 percent after fees since 1988, with only one an- from the declining cable business. Though some pany. Now it’s taking that strategy of “cornering nual loss—and only three monthly losses between viewers posted screenshots of the glitches, “Wall the market on the most valuable entertainment 2001 and 2010. Street seemed confident” they’d be resolved. character universes” into the home. Bloomberg Businessweek Trade: China deal still trapped in details Sorry, tourists: China AP, Getty Q A New Jersey has an app for that country club is President Trump said this week that the first phase of a trade deal with suing a waiter China could be completed “soon,” but tariffs would be “raised very Cash or credit? Tourists who spilled substantially” if no truce was reached, said James Politi in the Financial in China are finding Times. The threat of a new escalation of the war between Washington those options aren’t red wine on and Beijing “highlights the trouble the U.S. administration is having in enough, said Shan a woman’s its efforts to strike an interim deal” after Trump announced the sides Li in The Wall Street $30,000 had reached a tentative agreement in October. Since then, officials have Journal. As China goes Hermès Kelly been “haggling over the details,” including the location where an agree- increasingly cashless, bag.The woman ment might be signed and whether existing levies would be rolled back. mobile payment apps had sued the Alpine Coun- like Tencent, WeChat try Club, where members Google: New scrutiny of data giant’s health effort Pay, and Alipay are pay $19,000 annually, for “how people hail taxis, the price of the since- Regulators and lawmakers raised questions about Google’s work with consult doctors, pay discontinued pink clutch. the nation’s second-largest health system to gather and analyze records for meals, and book of millions of Americans, said Rob Copeland in The Wall Street Journal. flights.” Indeed, even The Washington Post The Project Nightingale initiative, revealed by the Journal this week, street carts and “beg- began in secret last year with Ascension, a chain of 2,600 hospitals and gars are asking for Q Worldwide, the wealth of medical facilities. At least 150 Google employees “have access to much money via QR code.” billionaires fell 4.3 percent in of the data,” including “lab results, doctor diagnoses, and hospitaliza- But while it’s argu- 2018 to $8.5 trillion—the first tion records” together with patient names. Federal regulators have asked ably made life easier time the ultrarich had seen Google for more information about the program, with at least one law- for China’s 1.4 billion such a reduction since 2015. maker, Sen. Mark Warner (D.-Va.), calling for it to be stopped. people, “it can leave The number of billionaires the 140 million tourists fell in every nation except Goldman Sachs: A sexist credit algorithm? arriving in the mainland the United States, which each year helpless.” claimed 749 billionaires at New York state regulators this week initiated an inquiry into Goldman The dominant payment the end of 2018. Sachs over an algorithm used in its new credit-card venture with Apple, platforms don’t func- said Sridhar Natarajan and Shahien Nasiripour in Bloomberg.com. tion without a Chinese Reuters.com The investigation began after a prominent software developer, David bank account, and Heinemeier Hansson, tweeted that the Apple Card gave him 20 times credit cards are quickly Q Chinese telecom maker the credit limit of his wife, even though she has a higher credit score. becoming obsolete. Huawei will pay out $286 mil- Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak said that he and his wife had a similar Even cash is for the lion in bonuses and double experience. Hansson said he hoped his posts “would spark a conversa- “dinosaurs.” Though almost all 190,000 employ- tion” about biases in the “black-box algorithms” used by lenders. the People’s Bank of ees’ monthly salaries for China recently made it October as a reward for help- Football: Bezos is looking to buy a team illegal for businesses to ing counter U.S. sanctions. refuse cash, one visitor Amazon founder Jeff Bezos wants to add an NFL franchise to his gilded from Sweden found Financial Times portfolio, said Jason La Canfora in CBSSports.com. The world’s richest that a shopkeeper at man “has become close with several owners,” and “has strong support the Great Wall wouldn’t THE WEEK November 22, 2019 within the league to eventually join their ranks.” While there are no take her yuan “for a teams now on the market, Paul Allen, owner of the Seattle Seahawks bottle of water.” in Amazon’s home city, died last year, and his team will be sold. The Carolina Panthers were sold for a record $2.2 billion in May 2018.

Making money BUSINESS 33 Financial transparency: Learning to talk about money “A new openness is changing the way twined with our attitudes toward we talk about our finances,” said Alex money,” said Claer Barrett in the Holder in The Guardian. More people Financial Times. Debt is an especially are sharing information about their sensitive subject; tackling it almost salaries, their home budgets, and even always requires not just financial credit card bills on social media, often planning, but also understanding the with the hashtag #debt. Gig workers, “emotional reasons” for your spend- in particular, are “self-organizing” in ing. I’ve given more than 100 money the absence of HR departments, estab- talks over the past four years, and lishing Facebook groups to discuss pay “there are always people who hang rates, offer advice, and air financial back at the end” to confide a personal grievances. One key reason for this question rather than ask it aloud. development is generational, said Hill- “Nine times out of 10, this will relate ary Hoffower in BusinessInsider.com. to debt.” “Millennials are much more open Try to discuss the emotional reasons behind spending. about money than their parents are.” How do your neighbors “afford *Naresh Jariwala* Our survey shows that 30 percent of Millennials share financial the elaborate remodel and the luxury vacations they’re brag- information with their friends. Among older generations, that’s ging about on their Instagram accounts and the private-school practically unheard-of. tuition?” asked Alina Tugend in The New York Times. Often, when we see our friends’ spending, we assume we are just worse Talking about your salary can still be difficult and embarrass- financial managers. In reality, that’s frequently untrue. Take ing, said Amy Bernstein in HBR.org. Income has always been the case of Ellen, who watched friends spend on vacations and the yardstick by which we measure ourselves. “In Pride and home additions. It all came apart when her friends ran out of Prejudice, it’s right there. You know: Mr. Darcy, he gets 10,000 money and had to sell the home they had spent so much to re- a year.” Finding out you make less than a co-worker can feel like model. In other cases, what you’re seeing is not out-of-control a personal failing. But talking to colleagues gets us important spending. It’s family help that pays for things like college tuition. information, and “helps us figure out if we’re being paid fairly.” When people apparently spend a lot more than their income Still, trying to have a conversation about money, with colleagues would seem to justify, “it’s often because there is hidden wealth or friends, often shows us “how deeply our emotions are inter- or hidden debt.” Getty What the experts say ber of orders, for example.” This has let the Charity of the week platforms “make incremental changes” to Using tax debt to steal your house their payment algorithms “without raising red The Women’s Business Development flags.” Indeed, “Postmates workers said they Center (wbdc.org) was founded in 1986 A county in Michigan seized a man’s home, are making 30 percent less than they once did to support sold it, and pocketed the revenue after he after the company changed its algorithms and startups underpaid his property taxes by $8.41, said eliminated a $4-per-job guarantee in May.” and nurture Eric Boehm in Reason. Uri Rafaeli paid Instacart drivers are guaranteed 60 cents per entrepre- $60,000 for a three-bedroom, 1,500-square- mile between the store and customer—based neurs’ devel- foot home in Southfield, Mich., as a rental solely on distance rather than the time it takes opment, property in 2011. He made a mistake on his to complete the trip—which adds up to “an with a focus property tax payments and miscalculated the ever-changing guessing game.” on women, minorities, and veterans.The interest he owed by less than $9. A year later, organization offers a variety of services to Rafaeli’s property was one of 11,000 that Nationwide glut of unclaimed assets build up and accelerate businesses, includ- Oakland County put up for auction, thanks ing workshops, monthly meetups, and to “Michigan’s uniquely aggressive property Government agencies are holding tens of bil- a nationally recognized certification pro- tax statute.” After a property is auctioned, the lions of dollars in unclaimed assets, said Mark gram. Headquartered in Chicago, WBDC county also gets to keep the proceeds, creat- Stein in The New York Times. Estimates vary, has offices across Illinois and the Midwest. ing a “perverse incentive for county officials but some suspect the face value of matured Since its inception, WBDC has assisted to effectively steal from their constituents.” Treasury savings bonds could be as much as more than 85,000 women, given thou- One Michigan county official emailed she was $80 billion, “and the total has been growing sands of training seminars, helped facili- “tickled pink” to seize a $3.5 million property faster than states can find owners or heirs.” tate some $1 billion in corporate contracts, the day after a tax deadline passed. In 2015, states returned $3.2 billion to the and annually handed out nearly 2,000 rightful owners, but the agencies received more business certifications. Donations to the Falling earnings for gig workers than $7.6 billion in new assets. “Gift cards are WBDC pay for emerging women-owned a fairly recent source of revenue in some states, business to receive certification, an impor- “Delivery drivers for many third-party plat- which claim the value on those cards when tant tool for getting noticed by government forms say they’re being wrung out” by chang- they aren’t redeemed.” There is no central and industry procurement programs. ing algorithms and pay structures, said Abha database for unclaimed assets, but you can find Bhattarai in The Washington Post. Apps such listings for 41 states at MissingMoney.com. Each charity we feature has earned a as DoorDash, Postmates, Instacart, and Fresh four-star overall rating from Charity Direct have “gamified” gig work, “offering Navigator, which rates not-for-profit sporadic bonuses for delivering a certain num- organizations on the strength of their finances, their governance practices, and the transparency of their operations. Four stars is the group’s highest rating. THE WEEK November 22, 2019

34 Best columns: Business Sharing economy: Airbnb tries to put out the fires Airbnb is the latest technology giant forced Don’t take the opposition to Airbnb to “reckon with the unintended conse- at face value, said David Freddoso in quences of how people use” its platform, WashingtonExaminer.com. The “hotel said David Yaffe-Bellany in The New industry and its moribund unions” have York Times. The home-sharing company “spread the message that Airbnb is either announced last week that it “plans to con- going to ruin your neighborhood or take duct a comprehensive review” of all 7 mil- away your job or make your rent go lion of its listings, verifying “photographs, up.” Airbnb’s foes hope to justify “anti- addresses, and other information posted homeowner and anti–property rights with each property.” The announcement ordinances” with claims about “wild came after a shooting killed five people at parties, deaths, murders, and other may- a party in an Airbnb rental in California, hem.” Yes, one reality show contestant and a report by Vice about a rental scam Five people died in a shooting at an Airbnb. got himself “tased and arrested” at an in which Airbnb guests were notified Airbnb in Los Angeles. So what? John about an “emergency” before their intended stay and rebooked Belushi, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and Whitney Houston all died at a much dingier property. The news comes as Airbnb faces in hotels. “Do you feel worse about hotels now?” Investors aren’t *Naresh Jariwala* backlash from critics who question how effectively the platform bothered by the attacks on Airbnb—they’re jostling to get in on monitors bad actors and who say the company pushes “unruly it, said Miles Kruppa in the Financial Times. The company isn’t tourists into residential areas.” public yet, but investors are flocking to buy “the right to proceeds from future IPO sales.” The price investors are paying for those Jersey City, N.J., became the latest city to crack down after vot- rights indicates that Airbnb could be worth about $42 billion. ers last week backed “strict short-term rental regulations,” said Paris Martineau in Wired.com. Airbnb spent $4.2 million “blan- Airbnb presented itself as “a virtuous disrupter: a new and more keting Jersey City in television ads, handouts, and pro-Airbnb efficient way of doing things that comes in and sweeps away an canvassers”; New York’s hotel union poured in resources on old and sclerotic order,” said Jeff Spross in TheWeek.com. It was the other side. While other cities have put limits on Airbnb, this supposed to be an open marketplace where travelers and hosts defeat especially stings because Airbnb saw its relationship with could find each other. Now that’s becoming increasingly unten- Jersey City as “an exemplary partnership.” In 2015, Jersey City able. Airbnb now says that the “hands-off” model is “not really legalized short-term rentals in exchange for an annual occupancy enough.” But wasn’t it the hands-off model that was supposed to tax. That attracted investors who saw an opportunity to rent make the sharing economy better? Without it, there’s not much places right outside New York “without running afoul of New left. “We already have an industry that specializes in providing York’s tight rules on short-term rentals.” short-term rentals to travelers: the hotel industry.” Facebook’s To understand Facebook, you need to know that posed thousands of pages of documents that show secret plan Mark Zuckerberg is “one of the most paranoid lead- Facebook’s dread of potential rivals. Facebook would is paranoia ers in Silicon Valley history,” said Casey Newton. To cut off access to its data for outside apps when they outsiders, Facebook is “a monolith that steamrolls grew too popular and posed a threat to a business— Casey Newton entire industries and nation-states.” But for Zucker- such as messaging or dating—that Facebook was berg and his fellow Facebook execs, it’s “never more involved in. Then Facebook would “publicly frame TheVerge.com than a few bad breaks away from oblivion.” A long- these moves as a way to protect user privacy.” Ex- running lawsuit between Facebook and the founder ecutives even had a name for the strategy of talking of the defunct company Six4Three provides insight about privacy while knocking out competitors: the into Zuckerberg’s state of mind. Six4Three made an Switcharoo Plan. Switcharoo didn’t come out of a “atrocious” app called Pikinis that “found photos of master plan to hijack and monetize your data. Of your Facebook friends in their swimsuits.” However course, it did that. But it was born, like most Face- unsympathetic Pikinis might be, the lawsuit has ex- book initiatives, “out of mortal fear” of competition. Our 401(k)s “401(k) plans haven’t helped you save enough for they should expect to accumulate $364,000. “The are letting retirement,” said Michael Hiltzik. For decades, typical 60-year-old with a 401(k), however, has only us down economists have debated questions such as whether $92,000.” Some of the shortfall comes from workers the plans, compared with older-style pensions, “leave starting to save late; 401(k) plans “began to surge Michael Hiltzik too many workers behind” or increase inequality. only toward the end of the 1980s.” Still, even work- We now have some answers, and they are not en- ers who started saving at 30 should have $270,000 Los Angeles Times couraging. In a new study, two experts—one liberal, by age 60. So what else is happening? For one thing, one conservative—collaborated to find out how well many workers spent part of their career with employ- 401(k)s have fared “and reached agreement that ers who didn’t offer the plans. More insidious is “the Getty the plans haven’t been working well enough to help cumulative loss from early withdrawals.” There’s a workers save for retirement.” The two experts postu- big early-withdrawal penalty, but that doesn’t deter lated that if workers earning median wages invested “workers with small balances and larger needs”— consistently into their 401(k) plans from age 25 to 60, a painful reflection of our economic inequality. THE WEEK November 22, 2019

Obituaries 35 The ‘tough mother’ who led an outerwear giant The ‘diminutive giant’ who helped Gert After her husband Ore., where her father bought millions of refugees Boyle died of a heart attack the Rosenfeld Hat Co. “Thinking in 1970, Gert Boyle Americans might dislike a foreign- When Sadako Ogata became 1924–2019 suddenly found herself sounding name, he searched the the first woman to head phone book for ideas” and picked the United Nations High in charge of the family company, Columbia. Boyle worked there Commission for Refugees as a youngster putting hat boxes in 1991, many in the U.N. Columbia Sportswear. The stay-at- together, and after graduating high school enrolled at the University of thought the home mother of three had no busi- Arizona, where she met her future husband, Neal Boyle. He joined Sadako Japanese ness experience, and bankers were her family’s firm in the 1950s Ogata academic was “and took over as president in soon pushing her to offload the 1964 when her father died,” said 1927–2019 too meek and The New York Times. Following Neal’s death, self-effacing struggling outdoor-clothing firm. But sales plummeted, and Boyle and her son had to quickly rethink the business. They began out- to be an effective leader. when she discovered that she’d get sourcing to Asia and started selling outdoor jack- Ogata immediately proved ets for $100—a third of the typical price. By the them wrong. With millions a mere $1,400 for Columbia, Boyle early 1980s, “the numbers turned around.” of Iraqi Kurds fleeing from the forces of Saddam Hus- declared that for that amount, “I’ll Boyle stepped down as president in 1988, “mak- sein, Ogata changed the ing way for her son,” said The Washington U.N.’s rules to help refugees drive it into the ground myself!” Post. But she remained active in business and displaced internally as well philanthropy into her 90s, regularly visiting the as those who crossed inter- Together with her college-age son, Tim, she repo- Columbia office to sign company checks and national borders. She then donating $100 million for cancer research at prevailed on Iran and Turkey, sitioned the Oregon-based company as a maker Oregon Health & Science University. She refused both of which had been to have a college building named after her. “If turning the Kurds away, to of affordable ski jackets and waterproof garb, I’m going to have my name on any cement,” she let the U.N. set up “safe said, “I’ll probably be under it.” havens” on their borders— Columbia Sportswear, Gene Maggio/The New York Times/Reduxand became the face of Columbia. In ads, Boyle and persuaded Iraq to not attack the camps. Paying *Naresh Jariwala*was portrayed as “One Tough Mother” who tribute to her diplomatic skills, the Tehran Times made sure her outerwear was always up to grade. referred to Ogata—who stood just under 5 feet tall— In one TV commercial, she strapped Tim to the as “the diminutive giant.” roof of a car and drove through mud and rain; in Born in Tokyo to a diplomat father, she spent her early a print spot, she flexed a bicep with a tattoo that years in the U.S., Hong Kong, and China and later read “Born to Nag.” The absurdist ads made became a professor of inter- national relations at Japan’s Boyle famous and helped turn Columbia from a Sophia University, said The Daily Telegraph (U.K.). regional player to a $3 billion colossus. She was appointed to the Japanese delegation to the She was born in Augsburg, Germany, to a U.N. General Assembly in wealthy Jewish family that owned a shirt factory, 1968 and was soon tasked said The Wall Street Journal. When she was 13, with handling “a series of her family fled the Nazis and settled in Portland, special jobs for the U.N. secretary-general.” The playwright who created The Partridge Family As head of UNHCR until Bernard Bernard Slade was ing 13 schools in seven years.” 2000, Ogata “oversaw Slade hunting for a new Always the “new boy,” Slade said, refugee operations during sitcom idea when he he evolved the “personality of a time of ravaging conflict,” 1930–2019 caught a mom and the class wit.” After returning to said The New York Times. Canada at age 18, Slade took up She responded to those her six singing children performing acting, and in the late 1950s began fleeing bloodshed in Bosnia writing for the stage, radio, and TV. and Herzegovina, Rwanda, on The Tonight Show. The group, He moved to Los Angeles in 1964 and East Timor, as well as and was soon writing for sitcoms, in Iraq, and often visited war The Cowsills, inspired Slade to write including Bewitched. Slade, to his zones to witness people’s embarrassment, also helped develop plight. “She was unafraid to The Partridge Family, about a musi- ABC’s The Flying Nun, about criticize her own country’s a novice nun (Sally Field) who could catch the poor record on accepting cal clan that finds success as a pop breeze and go airborne. “I was ducking into door- refugees”—last year, Japan ways when I’d see friends,” Slade said. “I did not let in only 42. “If Japan band. The show debuted on ABC in want as an epitaph ‘He Created the Flying Nun.’” doesn’t open a door,” she said in 2016, “it’s against 1970, spawned hit songs, including Critical acclaim finally came his way with Same human rights.” Time, Next Year, which was nominated for a “I Think I Love You,” and made a Tony for Best Play, said The Washington Post. THE WEEK November 22, 2019 Slade wrote two more Broadway hits: 1978’s teen idol out of David Cassidy. But after four Tribute, starring Jack Lemmon as a terminally ill press agent, and the following year’s Romantic seasons, Slade tired of arguing with TV executives Comedy, which cast Mia Farrow and Anthony Perkins as playwrights who slowly fall in love. and returned to his first love: theater. He quickly Some critics found his plays too frivolous, not that Slade cared. “I’ve always believed that laugh- found success with the 1975 play Same Time, ter is the perfume of life,” he said. “It makes life bearable. Please...send in the clowns.” Next Year, which follows an adulterous couple who reunite for one weekend each year at the same bed-and-breakfast. The show ran for 1,453 performances on Broadway and became one of the world’s most-produced plays. “I wrote televi- sion for the money. I wrote the play for myself,” Slade said. “Yet it’s the play that’s made me the most money. There’s a lesson in that somewhere.” Born in St. Catharines, Ontario, Slade moved with his parents to their native England in 1935, said HollywoodReporter.com. He “spent World War II as a child evacuee, moving constantly and attend-

36 The last word The slave who won reparations A free black woman, Henrietta Wood, sued the man who kidnapped and enslaved her, said historian W. Caleb McDaniel in Smithsonian Magazine. Her victory made national news—but was forgotten by history. ON APRIL 17, 1878, *Naresh Jariwala* of Wood. All they 12 white jurors needed was someone entered a federal W. Caleb McDaniel (2), Okinawa Soba to do the dirty work courtroom in Cincinnati of enslaving her again. to deliver the verdict in a now-forgotten lawsuit ZEBULON WARD about American slavery. was their man. The plaintiff was Henrietta A native Ken- Wood, described by a tuckian who had reporter at the time as “a recently moved to spectacled negro woman, Covington, just across apparently 60 years old.” The defendant was Zebulon the Ohio River Ward, a white man who from Cincinnati, had enslaved Wood 25 years Ward became a before. She was suing him deputy sheriff in for $20,000 in reparations. 1853. The Whites lived in Coving- Two days earlier, the jury ton, too, and in the spring of 1853 had watched as Wood took they persuaded Ward to pay them the stand; her son, Arthur, $300 for the right to sell Wood and who lived in Chicago, was The verdict slip recording Wood’s victory—no pocket the proceeds in the courtroom. Born image of Wood herself survives; a cotton plantation himself—provided into bondage in Kentucky, he could get her. Wood testified, she had been granted her A True Story of Slavery Gangs worked freedom in Cincinnati in 1848, but five and Restitution in America. throughout the antebellum period to cap- years later she was kidnapped by Ward, ture free black men, women, and children and smuggle them into the South, under who sold her, and she ended up enslaved on That story began two cen- the cover of the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850, which required the return of run- a Texas plantation until after the Civil War. turies ago with Wood’s birth in northern away slaves. Ward began to plot with a group of these notorious “slave catchers.” She finally returned to Cincinnati in 1869, Kentucky. “I can’t quite tell my age,” Wood The gang located Wood’s employer in Cincinnati, a boardinghouse keeper named a free woman. She had not forgotten Ward recalled in a newspaper interview in 1876, Rebecca Boyd, and paid her to join their scheme. One Sunday afternoon in April and sued him the following year. but she knew she was born enslaved to the 1853, Boyd tricked Wood into taking a carriage ride across the river. And when the The trial began only after eight years of Tousey family between 1818 and 1820. In carriage finally rolled to a stop outside of litigation, leaving Wood to wonder if she 1834, the teenager was bought by a mer- Covington, Ward’s men were waiting. would ever get justice. Now she watched chant in Louisville and taken from her fam- nervously as the 12 jurors returned to their ily. She was soon sold again, to a French It would be 16 years before Wood set foot seats. Finally, they announced a verdict that immigrant, William Cirode, who took her in Ohio again. few expected: “We, the Jury in the above to New Orleans. She spent the first nights of her captivity entitled cause, do find for the plaintiff and Cirode returned to France in 1844, aban- locked inside two roadside inns. Her cap- tors’ destination was Lexington, Ky., where assess her damages in the premises at Two doning his wife, Jane, who eventually took prices for slaves had risen with the Southern cotton economy. After 1815, as white set- thousand five hundred dollars.” Wood with her to Ohio, a free state. Then, tlers rushed into the lower Mississippi River Valley, many looked to purchase slaves to Though a fraction of what Wood had in 1848, Jane Cirode went to a county cultivate the region’s most profitable crop. asked for, the amount would be worth courthouse and registered Wood as free. Slave traders met the demand by buying nearly $65,000 today. It remains the largest “My mistress gave me my freedom,” Wood slaves in Virginia, Kentucky, and Maryland known sum ever granted by a U.S. court in later said, “and my papers were recorded.” and selling them in the cotton states. restitution for slavery. Wood spent the next several years perform- Between 1820 and 1860, nearly a million ing domestic work around Cincinnati. She people were sold “down the river.” But Wood’s name never made it into the would one day recall that period of her life history books. When she died in 1912, her as a “sweet taste of liberty.” suit was already forgotten by all except her All the while, however, there were people son. Today, it remains virtually unknown, conspiring to take her freedom away. even as reparations for slavery are once Cirode’s daughter and son-in-law, Josephine again in the headlines. and Robert White, still lived in Kentucky I first learned of Wood from two interviews and disagreed with Jane Cirode’s manu- she gave to reporters in the 1870s. They led mission of Wood; they viewed her as their me to archives in nine states in search of inheritance. By the 1850s, the interstate her story, which I tell in full for the first time slave trade was booming, and the Whites in my new book, Sweet Taste of Liberty: saw dollar signs whenever they thought THE WEEK November 22, 2019

The last word 37 Ward planned to make Wood the latest *Naresh Jariwala*postwar constitutional amendments that not show, as Wood did, that they had been victim of this trade, but she resolved to abolished slavery and extended national re-enslaved. But Wood and her lawyers Library of Congress fight. Wood secretly told her story to a citizenship to ex-slaves enabled Wood to had argued that the case was about much sympathetic innkeeper who followed her pursue Ward in federal court. more than damages from abduction. By to Lexington, where a lawsuit was filed on suing Ward for the wages she had lost while her behalf asserting that she was free. Wood Ward’s lawyers stalled, claiming that owned by Brandon, her lawyers made clear was never allowed to testify, however, and Wood’s failed antebellum suit for freedom that a verdict for Wood was an acknowl- Ward denied her claims. Her official free- proved his innocence. They also said that edgment of the evils of slavery itself. dom papers, at a courthouse in Cincinnati, Ward’s alleged crimes had occurred too far had been destroyed in an 1849 fire, and her in the past—a recurring argument against Few white Americans wished to dwell on kidnappers had confiscated her personal reparations. Wood suffered another, unex- those evils. By 1878, white Northerners copy. The case was eventually dismissed. In pected setback in 1874, when her lawyer were retreating from Reconstruction. the eyes of Kentucky law, Wood was a slave. was murdered by a client’s husband in Newspapers described Wood’s suit as an an unrelated divorce case. Then, in 1878, “old case” or a “relic of slavery times,” The freedom suit had prevented Ward from jurors ruled that Ward should pay Wood consigning stories like hers to a fading past. selling Wood for nearly two years, but in for her enslavement. A record now at the “Not so many complications of a legal 1855, he took her to a Kentucky slave- National Archives in Chicago confirms that nature arise out of the old relations of mas- trading firm that did business in Natchez, he did, in 1879. ter and slave as might have been expected,” Miss. The traders put Wood up for sale at the New-York Tribune argued with barely Natchez’s infamous Forks of the Road slave Brandon Hall, where Wood was enslaved concealed relief. market. Gerard Brandon, one of the largest slaveholders in the South, bought Wood WOOD’S VICTORY BRIEFLY made her Wood was an early contributor to a long and took her to his house, Brandon Hall, lawsuit national news. Not every- tradition of formerly enslaved people and on the Natchez Trace. “Brandon was a one agreed with the verdict, but their descendants demanding redress. In the very rich man,” Wood later said. He owned the facts of her horrific story were widely 1890s another formerly enslaved woman, 700 to 800 slaves on several plantations, accepted as credible. The New York Times Callie House, led a national organization and he “put me to work at once in the cot- observed, “Files of newspapers of the five pressuring the government for ex-slave ton field,” she said. “I sowed the cotton, years following the passage of the Fugitive pensions. In 1969, civil rights leader hoed the cotton, and picked the cotton. I Slave Law are filled with stories of the kid- James Forman issued a manifesto calling worked under the meanest overseers, and napping of free men in free States.” (In fact, on churches and synagogues to pay half got flogged and flogged, until I thought I free black Northerners had been kidnapped a billion dollars in reparations to black should die.” for years before the Fugitive Slave Law of Americans. Today, many reparations advo- 1850.) Some newspapers even predicted cates look to legislation, targeting govern- At some point during those hellish days, that lawsuits like hers would proliferate. As ments for their complicity in slavery and Wood gave birth to Arthur, whose father is one put it, Wood’s award was “not a liberal white supremacy. They note that disenfran- unknown. She was later removed from the equivalent for the loss of liberty” she had chisement and segregation only worsened cotton fields and put to work in Brandon’s suffered, but it would “be applicable to a the racial wealth gap, which was established house. great many cases yet untried.” under slavery and remains today. While Wood received $2,500 as compensation for The Civil War began, followed in 1863 Yet Wood v. Ward did not set a sweeping more than 16 years of unpaid labor, her by the Emancipation Proclamation, but legal precedent. Even the judge who presided former enslaver, Ward, left an estate worth Wood’s ordeal continued. On July 1, 1863, over Wood’s case, Phillip Swing, viewed it at least $600,000 when he died in 1894, a just days before the U.S. Army arrived to narrowly. “Fortunately for this country the multimillionaire in today’s terms. free thousands of people around Natchez, institution of slavery has passed away,” he Brandon, determined to defy emancipation, had instructed the jurors, “and we should But Wood’s award, however insufficient, forced some 300 slaves to march 400 miles not bring our particular ideas of the legality was not ineffectual. After her suit, she to Texas, far beyond the reach of federal or morality of an institution of that char- moved with her son to Chicago. With help soldiers. Wood was among them. Brandon acter into Court or the jury-box.” He had from his mother’s court-ordered compensa- kept her enslaved on a cotton plantation cautioned the jurors against an excessive tion, Arthur bought a house, started a fam- until well after the war. Even “Juneteenth,” award, claiming—falsely—that many former ily, and paid for his own schooling. In 1889, the day in June 1865 when Union soldiers slaveholders already regretted slavery. he was one of the first African-American arrived in Texas to enforce emancipation, graduates of what became Northwestern did not liberate Wood. It wasn’t until she Swing also told the jurors to focus on University’s School of Law. When he died returned to Mississippi with Brandon in Wood’s kidnapping in assessing the case, in 1951, after a long career as a lawyer, he 1866 that she gained her freedom; she con- and the vast majority of freed people could left behind a large clan of descendants who tinued to work for Brandon, now promised were able to launch professional careers a salary of $10 a month, but she would say of their own, even as redlining and other she was never paid. racially discriminatory practices put a chokehold on the South Side neighborhoods It was four years after the Confederate where they lived. For them, the money surrender before Wood was able to return Henrietta Wood demanded for her enslave- up the river, where she tried to locate long- ment made a long-lasting difference. lost members of her family in Kentucky. Whether she succeeded in that quest is This story originally appeared in Smithsonian unknown—but she did find a lawyer, Magazine. Copyright 2019 Smithsonian Harvey Myers. He helped Wood file a Institution. Reprinted with permission. lawsuit in Cincinnati against Ward, now a wealthy man living in Lexington. The THE WEEK November 22, 2019

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