PFBNOW ADVENTURES!

  During Mark Zuckerberg’s days-long testimony at Meta’s antitrust trial, he argued that social media doesn’t exist the way it did in the early 2010s—platforms have become less social and more like regular media.

  In her memoir, Barbra Streisand “will have not only the last word; she will have the most words, and also the most true ones,” Rachel Syme writes. On Babs’s birthday, revisit Syme’s review of the icon’s autobiography.

  The architect behind London’s Shard, New York’s Whitney Museum, and Paris’s Centre Pompidou, Renzo Piano, recommends four books that have been especially influential to his work. Renzo Piano’s Light Touch. The architect behind London’s Shard, New York’s Whitney Museum, and Paris’s Centre Pompidou discusses.

  Grab your headphones. Sarah Larson suggests three podcasts that cover a topic on everyone’s mind: money.   Three Actually Fun Podcasts About Money. From the daily newsletter: Our podcast critic recommends a few entertaining podcasts about what could be considered an otherwise stressful subject.

    Pope Francis was broadly popular around the world, especially among liberals. But toward the end of his life, his approval ratings dipped in the U.S. and some Latin American nations. But no country witnessed a sharper drop than his native Argentina.

 

  “American Photography,” a new exhibit at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, reveals a nation that is not just a powerhouse of moral, commercial, and political purpose but an engine for repurposing, Anthony Lane writes. A Long, Hard Look at America. As the transatlantic alliance falters, a major exhibition of U.S. photography offers Europeans a dizzying array of perspectives.

  What’s striking about the new literature on Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War is that, though one may expect Lincoln to be in some sense debunked or “deconstructed,” he remains a largely idealized figure, Adam Gopnik writes. Was the Civil War Inevitable? Before Lincoln turned the idea of “the Union” into a cause worth dying for, he tried other means of ending slavery in America.

 

    The U.S. government has been evasive about whether Israel has violated the laws of war. A professor at Harvard Law School believes this is because the U.S. anticipates a large-scale conflict of its own.

  Brené Brown’s 2011 TEDx talk, “The Power of Vulnerability,” is one of the top five TED talks of all time. Audiences enjoy “watching me struggle with my own work,” she said. “I’m saying, ‘Here’s what the research says. I think this is going to suck, but I’m going to give it a shot.’ ”   Brené Brown’s Empire of Emotion. How a Texan’s stories teach a nation to be vulnerable.

      Nearly every day for decades, Irving V. Link tanned by the luxury pool. Then his life style came under threat from the hotel’s owner, the Sultan of Brunei.        The Man Who Spent Forty-two Years at the Beverly Hills Hotel Pool. From 1993: Nearly every day for decades, Irving V. Link tanned by the luxury pool, Adam Gopnik writes. Then his life style came under threat from the hotel’s owner, the Sultan of Brunei.

 

  “Mature and gentle horse seeks same for love and laughs in a quiet border town.” See some personal ads from horses. Personal Ads from the One Horse in This One-Horse Town. Me: happy-go-lucky, helpful, healthy, honest, handsome, hopeful. You: a horse.