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Famous parents have become Fashion Week’s hottest accessory. But iPINIONS contends that behind the glamour of their nepo babies strutting inherited privilege lurks a psychological price nobody wants to discuss. See my full take on Substack: https://ipinionsdaily.substack.com/p/nepo-babies-the-moral-hazard-of-inherited Read more.
The Yankees have spent 17 years proving that money can’t buy championships, though the Steinbrenners seem determined to keep testing that theory. After another humiliating playoff sweep, even my schadenfreude has given way to pity. iPINIONS laments that baseball’s richest perennial losers have stopped being funny and started being pathetic. See my full take on… Read more.
Tucker Carlson doesn’t debate. He provokes, monetizes the outrage, then waits for the clips to go viral. iPINIONS comments on how Jacob Rees-Mogg walked into that racket and, improbably enough, became the adult in the room. Read my full take on Substack: https://ipinionsdaily.substack.com/p/rees-mogg-plays-straight-man-on-tucker Read more.
Brazil’s runoff is about more than Lula versus another Bolsonaro. iPINIONS contends it’s about whether voters will spring the father through the son, reward Trump’s meddling, or hand the would-be emperor another humiliating lesson in unintended consequences. Read my full take on Substack: https://ipinionsdaily.substack.com/p/flavio-bolsonaro-leads-into-presidential Read more.
Beth Harmon was fiction. Bodhana Sivanandan is 11, British, brilliant, and already making chess history. Meet the real Queen’s Gambit. Read my full take on Substack: https://ipinionsdaily.substack.com/p/the-real-queens-gambit-is-11-year Read more.
John Roberts doesn’t rant like MAGA. He does something more consequential. Behind the robes and institutionalist pose lies a jurisprudence that has steadily expanded presidential power, weakened democratic guardrails, and left Trump free to act first while everyone else litigates the wreckage. iPINIONS argues that the conjurer may recoil at the monster, but he helped… Read more.
Republicans hauled Jack Smith before Congress to punish him for prosecuting Trump. iPINIONS argues the farce says less about Smith than about a party still willing to bend law, truth, and institutional power around one man. See my full take on Substack: https://ipinionsdaily.substack.com/p/republicans-persecute-jack-smith Read more.
Too little is being made of Pope Leo XIV’s extraordinary popularity and influence on the world stage. As Trump forfeits America’s claim to lead the free world, iPINIONS contends that the first American pope is filling the vacuum with the moral authority Trump has squandered. Paris offered the latest proof. See my full take on… Read more.
An Austrian bakery is charging New Yorkers $60 for the same loaf it sells for $16 back home. But perhaps Auer has simply learned what Big Pharma discovered long ago. And so iPINIONS laments that Americans will pay sucker prices. Read my full take on Substack: https://ipinionsdaily.substack.com/p/america-the-sucker Read more.
Trump keeps warning MAGA Republicans that Democrats are bent on turning America communist. Yet he trashes democratic norms at home while genuflecting before Xi Jinping abroad, treating the Chinese strongman with the kind of deference he rarely shows America’s democratic allies. iPINIONS argues that the hypocrisy is as revealing as the spectacle. Read my full… Read more.
