The Fourth Course — A private cultural concierge

You're brilliant at what you do. But at dinner last night, someone mentioned Rosalia and you had nothing. Your intern knows what Chinamaxxing means. You don't.

25 years decoding culture across continents. The Louvre, the Guggenheim, the Sistine Chapel. Rihanna, Usain Bolt, Lewis Hamilton. Nation branding for Egypt, Jamaica, and Morocco. Information warfare. Fighting hate and antisemitism. Fortune 500 rebrands. French critical theory. AI studios. If it shapes how people see the world, we've probably been in the room.

Slop The Word

Nollywood without Netflix The Map

Qatar's permanent pavilion in the Giardini The Artwork

Rebecca Solnit's The Beginning Comes After the End The Book

Data centers, the midterms' kitchen-table issue The Friction

Bhattacharya runs both NIH and CDC The Move

78% of French Jews feel unsafe The Number

The Strokes' CIA montage at Coachella The Sound

Palantir's manifesto for a technological republic The Debate

Art Dubai drops booth fees The Move

Harvard: AI adopters hire 8% fewer juniors The Number

Adam Louis-Klein The Person

Every morning, a briefing on your phone. Culture, ideas, art, power, language. The things people are talking about, what they'll be talking about next week, and the one sentence that makes you sound like you've been paying attention.

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