Private schools and inequity, fixing the internet, America’s reliance on special ops, and understanding long COVID. Plus new fiction by Paul Yoon, pandemic merch, Beirut after the blast, Kazuo Ishiguro’s radiant robot, Sam Sifton’s no-recipe recipes, and more.
Cover Story:Private Schools Have Become Truly ObsceneElite schools breed entitlement, entrench inequality—and then pretend to be engines of social change.by Caitlin Flanagan