PFBNOW ADVENTURES!

  Ruth Marcus reports from inside an emergency hearing to discuss the Trump Administration’s defiance of a court order. “What ensued was one of the most extraordinary exchanges I’ve witnessed in years of covering the courts.” The Trump Administration Nears Open Defiance of the Courts In its conflict with a federal judge, the Justice Department claims to be complying with his orders while provoking a constitutional crisis.

  The last film by Sophie Fairy Fillières, who died before completing it, is a bold reckoning with an artist’s self-awareness and personal freedom in the face of illness. “This Life of Mine”: A Terminal Masterwork. The last film by Sophie Fillières, who died before completing it, is a bold reckoning with an artist’s self-awareness and personal freedom in the face of illness.

  On Tuesday, President Donald Trump demanded the judge’s impeachment, calling him “a Radical Left Lunatic.” At which point the Chief Justice of the United States, John Roberts, weighed in. “For more than two centuries, it has been established that impeachment is not an appropriate response to disagreement concerning a judicial decision,” Roberts wrote in a rare public statement. “The normal appellate review process exists for that purpose.”

  Alex Ross writes about how watching two young pianists—Yunchan Lim and Seong-Jin Cho—play recently gave him “a tremor of hope about classical music’s eternally precarious future.” Two Young Pianists Test Their Limits. Yunchan Lim tackles Bach’s Goldberg Variations, and Seong-Jin Cho presents a Ravel marathon.

  “How are we meant to feel about shows that we both love and oppose?” Molly Ringwald wrote, in 2018. “What if we are in the unusual position of having helped create it?” What About “The Breakfast Club”? Revisiting the movies of my youth in the age of #MeToo.

  DOGE’s assault on the federal workforce is, in part, a classic Silicon Valley story: condemning the public sector while lauding the private sector. But it’s also about “how work ethic gets twisted to serve the ends of people in power,” Charlie Tyson writes.   The Long Nap of the Lazy Bureaucrat The stereotype of the unmotivated official, which has fuelled Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s assault on government workers, has existed for as long as bureaucracy itself.

  During the Biden Administration, Republicans repeatedly claimed that conservatives were the victims of censorship. Now they seem especially eager to influence the flow of speech and ideas.

  In last year’s Presidential election, young men swung dramatically to the right. Can the left win them back?

 

 

  Under Jonathan Anderson’s stewardship, Loewe became both a darling among critics and a commercial dynamo. His emphasis on bridging fashion and craft, and bringing them both under the umbrella of art, makes the wearers of his creations feel as if they were doing something more cerebral and aesthetically elevated than merely consuming luxury goods. Anderson preferred to characterize Loewe as a cultural brand rather than a luxury one, finding the latter term despoiled. “The luxury brand became as mass as the mass brand,” he said. Instead, he argued, a fashion house like Loewe should offer its followers a form of aesthetic aspiration, and also a form of education, in part by introducing them to living and historical artists and to designers whose work they otherwise might not encounter. Today, Anderson announced that he would be leaving Loewe after 11 years as the brand’s creative director. It’s rumored that he will soon be appointed at Dior. Read Rebecca Mead’s new Profile of Anders...

  Voice texts “remind me that people are so much funnier and stranger and more dynamic than most virtual communication allows them to be,” Rachel Syme writes.   The Pleasures of Conversing via Voice Text. An audio message is a text with a pulse, a phone call with none of the pressure, a fizzy zap of connection that’s there and then gone.

  “To call Chloe elusive is an understatement.” Revisit Jay McInerney’s Profile, from 1994, of the actor and ’90s icon. Chloe’s Scene. With a street-smart style and a down-low attitude, Chloe Sevigny is Manhattan’s current It Girl.

 

  In which Mary Norris contemplates a return to the Church. Where is God.