At some point in the future, the sentient beings running the planet may want to study how the humans dealt with the technological revolution of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. After they have ingested the pertinent scholarly essays and news reports, they will have a pretty good idea of how we managed the…
Dr. Leslie Hendeles began prodding the Food and Drug Administration to reject a decongestant in cold medicines when he had a mop of curly red hair and Bill Clinton had just become president. By the time opposition to the drug had coalesced, Dr. Hendeles was appearing, at age 80, as an expert to testify before…
Fashion month — or the back-to-back fashion weeks in New York, London, Milan and Paris — is underway once again. Hundreds of shows will take place before it ends, not to mention dozens of parties. And for every look shown on the runways, there will be others worth noticing on the streets outside the spring…
Close your eyes and imagine the last gossipy conversation you had with a friend in a public setting. Maybe you were complaining about your spouse over a cappuccino in your neighborhood coffee shop. Or loudly talking over the din of the subway about your boss. You love your spouse, and genuinely like your boss, but…
A typical Hollywood charity auction, like the Baby2Baby Gala, might consist of beauty sessions with sought-after dermatologists, autographed books and set memorabilia, and the occasional five-minute photo op. It might also be closed to the public, available only to those connected individuals who can afford to bid richly. The charity auction organized by the Union…
“Accuracy for the time doesn’t matter to me,” Solomon Chen, the chief executive of a consumer electronics company, said recently by phone. “When my jaw just drops and also when people say, ‘What is that? What do you have in there?,’ that’s why I collect clocks.” For the last 25 years, Mr. Chen, 62, has…
“I always wrote off my husband’s promises to protect me in my moments of despair because I assumed he meant he was prepared to do so physically, an engagement with masculinity that I dislike. But I had not understood his meaning.” In this week’s breathtaking Modern Love essay, “Pinned Under the Bodies of Men,” Jerrine…
The Roman Empire began in 27 B.C. and fell in A.D. 476. And in A.D. 2023, it went viral on TikTok. In posts shared on social media, women have been asking the men in their lives how often they think about ancient Rome. “Constantly,” one husband responded. “Like, every day,” said a boyfriend. As of…
At Royal Theatre Drury Lane, a full house had taken their seats at the behest of the voice of God, who happened to be Sir Ian McKellen. Onstage, a giant projection of Big Ben struck 8 p.m. — where the dials remained for another 12 minutes. The audience wasn’t surprised: Fashion shows always start late.…
Style Points is a weekly column about how fashion intersects with the wider world. “Quiet luxury” and the safest of minimalism have had fashion in a chokehold for several seasons now, but it feels like we might finally be breaking free. This New York Fashion Week, all manner of stridently pretty motifs recalled the mid-2000s…