Business
3G, Valeant and SoftBank: Wall Street believed these M&A powerhouses to be exceptional. Turns out, they weren’t.
Oct. 4, 2019
World’s 100 richest people got $241 billion richer in 2012
Jan. 3, 2013
Books
THE BIG TEST The Secret History of the American Meritocracy By Nicholas Lemann; Farrar, Straus & Giroux: 406 pp., $27
Oct. 24, 1999
The Ritz of the Bayou by Nancy Lemann (Alfred A. Knopf. $15.95. 163 pages).
Sept. 30, 1987
Redemption The Last Battle of the Civil War Nicholas Lemann Farrar, Straus & Giroux: 209 pp., $24
Sept. 17, 2006
Politics
“Campaign reporting is very narrow,” says Nicholas Lemann, a staff writer at the New Yorker magazine.
Aug. 9, 2000
Surely the most consequential event in the history of America was the establishment, in the late 18th Century, of a system of ordered liberty.
March 17, 1991
Movies
Alas, it appears that The Times now favors the ban on Academy “screeners.”
Oct. 15, 2003
Opinion
Orwell thought that better writing would lead to better politics; he was partially right.
Nov. 4, 2007
‘The (black) ghettoes bear the accumulated weight of all the bad in our country’s racial history,” writes Nicholas Lemann in “The Promised Land,” “and they are now among the worst places to live in the world. . . .
Nov. 3, 1991