Rafael Bernstein

Reading these comments, I’m wondering, not for the first time, whether I’m wasting my time emphasizing the importance of honesty to my eight year old when I’m releasing her into a world that no longer seems to value it.

From the presidency down to the book club attendee, we no longer confront lying. We invent excuses for it or look the other way.... See more

London’s Coal Drops Yards cropped up in an area once full of underground nightclubs and cheap artists’ studios. The area has now been transformed into an anodyne, gutless shithole populated with places selling coffee at £15 a cup. Located next to St. Martin’s College of Art, the development is a public-seeming but actually private space so devoid... See more

Beijing has been preparing for Cold War without eagerness for waging it, while the US wants to wage a Cold War without preparing for it.