Posts by Morgan Hills
Brazil’s Government Chooses Restraint in Addressing US Tariffs—For Now
In the wake of oppressively weighty new tariffs levied by the Trump administration this week, Brazil’s finance minister indicated the country’s government practicing restraint rather than retaliating. Dario Durigan said Friday that the country wasn’t considering an in-kind escalation in duties, and will opt instead to strategically assess the situation before responding with its own…
Read MoreChristopher Nolan Has Always Been Making “The Odyssey”
There are times when you can sense Nolan’s frustration—not with Homer so much as his own inability to reshape the material into something more than mere spectacle. When Odysseus and his men navigate a course between the stonelike, man-grabbing tentacles of Scylla and the enormous churning maelstrom of Charybdis—or, as they are known in less…
Read MoreBurberry Sales Climb 5% in Q1, Fueled by Gen Z and Renewed Enthusiasm for Trench Coats
This story was updated at 6:15 a.m. ET on Friday, July 17, 2026. LONDON – Burberry’s retail revenue rose 5 percent to 455 million pounds in the first fiscal quarter, bolstered by Gen Z and customers’ appetite for trench coats, scarves and handbags, the latter of which returned to growth in the three months ended…
Read MoreErmanno Scervino CEO on Retail Expansion, Strong U.S. Business, Eyeing Menswear
MILAN — “We never betrayed our customers.” Toni Scervino, chief executive officer and cofounder of the Ermanno Scervino brand with designer Ermanno Daelli, attributes this consistency in style, pricing and fabric research to the constant and gradual growth of the brand, leading to a loyal customer base over the years. “The special craft, the Made…
Read MoreThe A.I. Gender Gap Meets the Parenting Gender Gap
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Labor-saving technology tends to create domestic systems that are far more efficient over all, but not necessarily easier for the people doing the labor. As the historian Ruth Schwartz Cowan wrote in “More Work for Mother: The Ironies of Household Technology from the Open Hearth to the Microwave,” from 1983, innovations such as the modern…
Read MoreChina Posts Strongest Export Growth in Nearly Five Years Despite Slowing Economy
China’s exports surged 27 percent year over year to $412.4 billion in June, the strongest such growth since October 2021. Shipments out of the country escalated from May’s 19.4 percent growth, according to China’s General Administration of Customs. The figures also exceeded the 18 percent growth forecast by economists surveyed by The Wall Street Journal.…
Read MoreHow Mary Kay Built an Empire Out of Other Women’s Dreams
Mary Kay had tried her hand at direct, door-to-door sales before. She was once enchanted with a Depression-era racket called the “Child Psychology Bookshelf”: badly printed, seldom-used encyclopedias filled with moral tales, sold on installment plans to poor mothers wanting the best for their children. (Her network of neighbors, friends, and the congregation of the…
Read MoreNaomi Fry’s Favorite Book
Being asked to name my favorite book of all time feels like way too much pressure (apologies to the asker, this newsletter’s editor). The older I get, the harder I find it to make definitive calls of this sort, since, by this point in my life, God bless, I’ve read a whole bunch of books,…
Read MorePort of Long Beach CEO: Traditional Peak Shipping Season ‘Outdated and Obsolete’
After the Port of Long Beach posted its third-busiest June on record, CEO Noel Hacegaba signaled that the traditional end-of-summer peak shipping season is “outdated and obsolete,” giving way to a fluid environment where businesses must account more for volatility than certainty. “Flexibility has become the supply chain’s greatest competitive advantage, but it now signals…
Read MoreAn Unbeliever’s View of the Jonestown Massacre
On November 18, 1978, more than nine hundred members of the Peoples Temple died at Jonestown, the agricultural settlement they had founded in a remote part of northern Guyana. Many, in answering the call to “revolutionary suicide,” drank Fla-Vor-Aid laced with cyanide; others who resisted were forcibly dosed. But nearly all of the congregants had…
Read MorePeter Nygard Convicted in Montreal Sexual Assault and Forced Confinement Case
The former fashion mogul Peter Nygard was found guilty of sexual assault and forcible confinement in a Quebec court on Monday, according to a Quebec Crown prosecutor. The new development marks the latest legal conviction that Nygard, 84, has faced. The executive stepped down from Nygard International in 2020, after federal investigators and officials from…
Read MoreA Dying Poet’s Farewell to the World
Celan’s influence is tricky to absorb for any poet who did not suffer in a labor camp or witness his parents taken away to be murdered by the S.S. It is impossible to isolate Celan’s aesthetic innovations from his trauma and its historical meanings; Wright preëmpts that bind by presenting his own suffering as sort…
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