Pete Speaks, Netflix Legal Limbo, Fall’s Art Market Awakening

Welcome back to The Daily Courant, your afternoon assortment of Puck’s best new reporting.

First up today, Bill Cohan investigates how Wall Street is really responding to the latest outcry over 100-hour work weeks for junior bankers, why H.R. is not your friend, and how Lazard C.E.O. Peter Orszag has emerged as a defender of the culture’s status quo.

Plus, below the fold: Dylan Byers chronicles the latest twists in the implausible sexting scandale involving New York political reporter Olivia Nuzzi and fly-by presidential candidate R.F.K. Jr. In Washington, John Heilemann calls up Pete Buttigieg to get his candid views on J.D. Vance. Marion Maneker previews some of the seven-figure works that might rouse the art market from its slumber. On The Varsity, John Ourand is joined by NBC Olympics TV producers Molly Solomon and Amy Rosenfeld for a debrief on Paris and what to expect in 2028. On a special Media Monday episode of The Powers That Be, Jon Kelly and Peter Hamby dive into the aforementioned Nuzzigate political-media saga and whether the November election will affect NFL ratings. And on The Town, Matt Belloni chats with New York Times Magazine deputy editor Sasha Weiss about whether Netflix’s nine-hour Prince docuseries will ever escape its legal limbo.

WILLIAM D. COHAN

Young Wall Street associates aren’t operating in a theater of war, so why can’t the industry actually do a little more to prevent their existences from becoming a total living hell—without the pat talking points?

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DYLAN BYERS

News and notes on one of the more implausible and totally depressing political-media sagas in modern memory. Plus, the Tyrangiel non-news at CNN.

JOHN HEILEMANN

No next-generation Democratic rising star is burning more brightly these days than Pete Buttigieg—or doing more, in public and behind the scenes, to help elect Kamala Harris. In a candid conversation, Buttigieg explains why Harris is winning, Trump is losing (his mind, in particular), and J.D. Vance is even worse than he seems.

MARION MANEKER

A wealth of new offerings at Christie’s and Sotheby’s aim to rouse the art market from its recent somnolence, with a spate of attractively priced major works in the mid-range. Is the market on the verge of a real rebound, or merely enjoying the artificial uplift of a manufactured narrative?