The Currency

JD Vance has a book out. Fr Michael Collins, who also has a book out, might be inclined to be generous to those who are promoting a publication, but he is less kind about one of Catholicism’s most high-profile converts. “Sometimes you don’t always want the converts who present themselves and knock on the door, but you can’t turn them away. You see, that’s the problem. You can...

Silk White didn’t go to film school, doesn’t have an agent, and hadn’t set foot in Los Angeles until May. But the former drug dealer turned independent filmmaker generates nearly $2 million annually from his movies and television series. White works in a nascent middle ground in the show business economy, between YouTube creators chasing algorithms and professionals backed by...

Back in August 2011, Ciaran Lee and Eoghan McCabe shared a beer in a dive bar called Club 93 in the South of Market neighbourhood in San Francisco. Along with two other friends, Des Traynor and David Barrett, they’d just incorporated a new company together.

At 30, Lee was the oldest of the four founders. A former Irish international skier, he was the chief technolog...

In 1987, Napoli were drawn to play Real Madrid in the first round of what was then called the European Cup. The tie was played over two legs. The first leg was played behind closed doors at the Bernabeu, where Madrid won 2-0.

Napoli were the reigning Italian champions, having won Serie A for the first time the previous season. They were inspired by the greatest play...

When the composer, trained classical pianist, and music producer, Dubliner Louis Ryan, was a child, he remembers the first time he heard Beethoven’s Pastoral Symphony with clarifying ease.

“I was sitting in my dad’s car, just… flabbergasted,” he smiles. “I’d never heard music like this before, and immediately started wondering, why don’t they play this on the radio ...