The “blood sport” of classical music reviews.

At the annual meeting of Berkshire Hathaway in Omaha.

The complexities of offering aid to a Syrian refugee camp.

Racial discrimination and the collection of small consumer debts.

A profile of Hollywood agent Irving “Swifty” Lazar.

A profile of Gordon Ramsay.

On the suicide of a promising professional golfer.

The transfiguration of Jared Loughner.

The life and death of Srinivas Kuchibhotla.

A profile of the Raging Bull boxer.

The education of Flynn McGarry.

“It was a clusterfuck of clusterfucks.”

A profile of the Fox News commentator.

On Rudolph Giuliani and the enduring power of shamelessness.

Tech oracle Jaron Lanier warned us all about the evils of social media.

“I think you are asking me, in the most tactful way possible, about my own ­aggression and malice. What can I do but plead guilty? I don’t know ­whether journalists are more aggressive and malicious than people in other professions. We are certainly not a ‘helping profession.’ If we help anyone, it is ourselves, to what our subjects don’t realize they are letting us take. I am hardly the first writer to have noticed the not-niceness of journalists. Tocqueville wrote about the despicableness of American journalists in Democracy in America. In Henry James’s satiric novel The Reverberator, a wonderful rascally journalist named George M. Flack appears. I am only one of many contributors to this critique. I am also not the only journalist contributor. Tom Wolfe and Joan Didion, for instance, have written on the subject. Of course, being aware of your rascality doesn’t excuse it.”

“While its source remains something of a mystery, Stuxnet is the new face of 21st-century warfare: invisible, anonymous, and devastating.”

What the great romantic novels of history can tell us about “seduction theory” and the cult of the pickup artist.

Thoughts on an emerging brand of feminism and the ridiculousness of claiming that Tina Fey is unattractive.

“And yet we live still in Cheney’s world. All around us are the consequences of those decisions.”

How LA-style gang life migrated to the slums of San Salvador.

On Los Angeles’s 1985 declaration of “sanctuary status.”

The tragic romance of Jim Irsay, the shrewd owner of the Indianapolis Colts, and Kimberly Wundrum, a mother who shared his longtime addiction to painkillers, that ended with her overdosing in the secret condo he bought her.

Eleven books into his planned thirteen book The Wheel of Time cycle, the most popular fantasy series since Lord of the Rings, Robert Jordan saw death on his own horizon and planned accordingly. A 31-year-old former Mormon missionary inherited his universe.

On the world’s biggest polluter.