Tag: ersatz

• Why do we buy into ‘stealth wealth’ and the class who wear it?

  May 17, 2023

  As I gazed upon another loving photo of a £1,000 cashmere sweater (this one by an Italian luxury brand nicknamed “Uniqlo for billionaires” and worn by Gwyneth Paltrow during her… more ›

• The grand portrait of a hard-luck singer who disappeared

  May 13, 2023

  With our four-day Wednesday-through-Saturday home delivery package, you get home delivery of our popular Food and 72 Hours sections as well as the full Saturday-Sunday weekend paper. And, as with… more ›

• What we lost with Persianate modernity

  March 18, 2023

  Cultural exchange is often assumed to be progressive, but it has neither an inherent politics nor an inevitable outcome. As nationalism rises across the globe, many see ‘cultural exchange’ as… more ›

• Scientists Say They Can Make Delicious Lab-Grown Fat, Weave It Into Fake Bacon

  March 18, 2023

  If humans are going to transition away from eating animals, we’ll need to make the alternatives a lot tastier for the countless among us who will still have meat on… more ›

• A Moscow diary: fear, loathing and deep denial

  January 7, 2023

  We’re almost a year into the war, and the Kremlin still has yet to explain what exactly the letters — first seen spray-painted on Russian tanks — are meant to… more ›