The 10.1.23 Issue

Highlights

1. A Silvery, Shimmering Summer of Beyoncé

   The Renaissance tour is a blueprint for how to cultivate pleasure and hold onto it at all costs.

    By Jenna Wortham

   

2. Benjamin Netanyahu’s Two Decades of Power, Bluster and Ego

   The nation’s current crisis can be traced back, in ways large and small, to the outsize personality of its longest-serving prime minister.

    By Ruth Margalit

   

3. Talk

   Modern Masculinity Is Broken. She Knows How to Fix It.

   “We need to work out what we want the future to look like for men in a way that women have already done,” says Caitlin Moran, the best-selling feminist author.

    By David Marchese

   

4. The Ethicist

   Consultants Boost College Applications. Is It Wrong to Use One for My Child?

   The New York Times Magazine’s Ethicist columnist on the kinds of extracurricular support parents owe their college-bound children.

    By Kwame Anthony Appiah