The remains of the day

It was a beautiful day. That’s the first thing anyone who lived through it will tell you – warm but not hot with a seamless sky – what pilots call “severe clear.” Only later did you realize that it had to be that kind of day for what would take place to occur.

China shoots for the moon

“My hope,” Sinologist Audrey Ronning Topping writes in WAG, “is that the two largest economies in the world – China and the United States – can work together to avoid space and trade wars and instead create a new world order.”

The other Open

Paralleling the US Open is Greenwich Polo Club’s East Coast Open (Sunday, Aug. 26 through Sept. 9), considered to be one of the most prestigious polo competitions in the United States.