The World Should Celebrate America’s Birthday

Ian Leslie’s John & Paul is that rarity, a book about music that is well-written and worth reading. This is because Ian Leslie is not a music writer. He is a behavioralist whose previous books include studies of the social functions of lying and curiosity, and the formation and resolution of social conflict. His exploration of the Lennon-McCartney relationship rests on a single and incisive assumption. For both Lennon and McCartney, their relationship was the deepest and most important they had with any living person after the deaths of their mothers when they were teenagers.

Democrats are right to be worried about the party’s shift to the left that Zohran Mamdani’s surprise victory in New York City’s mayoral primary implies.