Innehållsförteckning för December 16, 2022 från Newsweek

1980 “Poland was under the gun,” Newsweek said when the mass labor union movement, Solidarity, challenged the Polish government’s alignment with the Soviet Union. “With that extraordinary cry of alarm, Poland’s Communist rulers begged their own people for cooperation and restraint....” Last month, a Russian-made missile struck Poland, killing two people,the first time in the nine-month-long Russia-Ukraine war that a NATO-country’s territory was hit. Poland and NATO said the rocket could have been a Ukrainian air defense missile and the strike was likely unintentional. 2005 “President Bush has always shown an admirable ability to ignore the Washington pundits and make fun of the chattering classes,” wrote Newsweek of George W. Bush’s indifference to criticisms of the Iraq war. This May, Bush accidentally called the Iraq war “unjustified and brutal” when…

“IT’S MY DUTY.”—A Beijing COVID protester giving the same answer heard at Tiananmen Square in 1989 “See you on the other side, My Love”—STEVIE NICKS ON THE DEATH OF CHRISTINE MCVIE “It stays silent and mostly invisible until you poke it with a stick.”—PLAYWRIGHT TOM STOPPARD ON ANTISEMITISM “A good way not to accidentally dine with a vile racist and anti-Semite you don’t know is not to dine with a vile racist and anti-Semite you do know.”—CONSERVATIVE COMMENTATOR BEN SHAPIRO “I FINALLY GOT BACK HOME TO RIGHT THIS WRONG.”—Dwayne Johnson on stealing Snickers bars from a Hawaii 7-Eleven as a kid “They were like the dark matter of biology.”—Nobel Prize-winning chemist Carolyn Bertozzi on her interest in sugars “I CAN’T SLOW DOWN RIGHT NOW. I’LL TAKE A BREAK WHEN I’M…

CultureHIGH, LOW + EVERYTHING IN BETWEENUNCHARTED Going out for the evening to get a drink with friends can be a lot of fun. Mix in a splash of adventure, intrigue—and even taboo—and it can make the outing all the more exciting. That is why speakeasies, a concept born of the 1920s Prohibition era, still thrive today. From a janitor’s closet in New York City to a pawn shop in San Francisco or a therapist’s office in Prague to a nonexistent hotel room in Hong Kong, here are some watering holes that require a little effort to find—for drinks and entertainment that are most certainly worth the price of admission. ‘Rookie’ Micheal Ward Is Getting Buzz “I’d never go and say, ‘Oh, you know, my next film, I’d love to work…

IMAGINE BEING A YOUNG ACTOR AND GETTING CAST IN A FILM DIRECTED by Sam Mendes. Oh, and your co-stars are going to be Olivia Colman and Colin Firth...all of whom have earned Oscars. Most would be intimidated, but not Micheal Ward, who plays Stephen in Empire of Light (December 9). “I’d never go and say, ‘Oh, you know, my next film, I’d love to work with Sam Mendes.’” Set in an English coastal town in the 1980s, Ward says the drama is “more than a love letter to cinema and even to the period, it’s really just a complex story.” Even though Ward isn’t old enough to have experienced the ’80s himself, “Sam just set up this environment for you to really do your best work.” While Ward might be…

PeriscopeNEWS, OPINION + ANALYSISRELIGION WHEN A 22-YEAR-OLD MAN OPENED FIRE IN A Colorado Springs nightclub during a drag performance on November 19, leaving five people dead, he put new light on a long-simmering debate within the Mormon Church about its stance on gay, lesbian and transgender people. The alleged shooter Anderson Lee Aldrich was brought up in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In the days following the shootings, Aldrich’s father, a former adult film star and mixed martial arts fighter with a history of substance abuse, appeared in a television news interview admitting that he condoned his son’s violent behavior as a child while alluding to the values of their Mormon heritage, saying “You know Mormons don’t do gay. We don’t do gay.” “We don’t get to…

I’VE ALWAYS MADE A JOKE about how my voice is unique, and so incredibly annoying. So, the most challenging thing in my life right now is dealing with what I call my “new voice.” My left vocal cord is paralyzed, and I may not get more of my voice back. I’ve been very self-conscious about it, because I sound a little bit like Minnie Mouse now and I have to explain it to the audience every time I do stand-up. Some people think I’m joking, but I really did get diagnosed with lung cancer in August 2021, without ever smoking, and the surgery to remove the cancer gave me pretty extensive nerve damage. But it’s funny, I’ve been getting so many people saying that they like this voice better. If…