Some prominent critics even speak of “platform capitalism” – a broader transformation of how goods and services are produced, shared and delivered.

As some of the early bohemian hangouts are being overwhelmed by a decidedly high-heeled and cologned crowd, and others give way to hotels and luxury rentals like the Ludlow, a 23-story brick-and-glass giant that looms over Katz’s Delicatessen, Mr. Misrahi finds himself vilified by some longtime Lower East Side watchers (even though the Ludlow, the most visible symbol of gentrification, is one of the few projects he had nothing to do with).

Our natures do pursue, / Like rats that ravin down their proper bane,

In 1870 W. Mattieu Williams published his very ingenious work entitled The Fuel of the Sun, in which, apparently without any knowledge of what had been written before with regard to an interstellary medium, he attempts to find therein the source of solar heat […]