‘Get Rich, or Die Barely Trying’

Plus: Miles Davis at 100 and a dispatch from the Unite the Kingdom rally ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­  

26 May 2026 • 10 Sivan 5786 Yesterday marked the unofficial start of summer. You can now safely wear those linen pants and white shoes. But if you find yourself feeling kind of blue this morning, it may have something to do with the fact that it was 100 years ago today that jazz great Miles Davis was born. In a piece from our latest print issue, essayist Gerald Early writes not so much about the superstar that Davis would become but about his start as an 18-year-old newbie running errands for bandleader Billy Eckstine. FROM THE PRINT MAGAZINE READ THE ARTICLE Miles Davis at 100 The high-wire act of a profound soloist BY GERALD EARLY Benjamin Morse used to think of himself as a man of the American left, not someone who’d be marching amid a sea of nationalists—particularly not in the UK. But there he was in London earlier this month at Tommy Robinson’s Unite the Kingdom rally, surprised by what he found. “The people I met at the UTK protest were plainspoken, well informed, and well aware of the contempt polite society harbors for them,” Morse writes. “They speak a common language against a two-tiered system that restricts free speech, that feeds and houses people who entered illegally while letting the native-born go homeless, and that exploits foreign workers to serve a corporate class.” [Advertisement] READ THE ARTICLE The Great British Blame Off Notes from an unlikely American at the Unite the Kingdom rally BY BENJAMIN MORSE Finally, Adam Lehrer takes a look at the wilder fringe of the crypto economy: the world of memecoins or, more plainly, shitcoins—things like $Trump and $Melania or, still more perplexingly, something like HarryPotterObamaSonic10Inu. “If one buys bitcoin for the hope that it will someday free them and their families from financial servitude,” Adam writes, “one buys memecoin, for lack of a better phrase, for the fuck of it. Roll the dice, see what happens. Get rich, or die barely trying.” FROM THE PRINT MAGAZINE READ THE ARTICLE A Brief History of Shitcoins How COVID nihilism, free government money, and technological innovation fueled a viral trend BY ADAM LEHRER LISTEN TO TABLET WHAT REALLY MATTERS A Visit to Ukraine This week, Walter and Jeremy discuss Iran’s stranglehold on the Strait of Hormuz, Trump’s creation of a $1.8 billion slush fund, the noose tightening around Cuba, and what Walter saw and heard on a recent trip to Ukraine. May 22, 2026 TAKE ONE Chullin 24, 25, and 26 Sympathy for the Golem May 26, 2026 Cryptically,   —The Editors This email was sent to you by Tablet Magazine  Tablet Magazine | P.O. Box 20079 | New York, NY 10001 Unsubscribe | Manage Preferences