EditorialMaie Folkerts and her 12-year-old son, Caius, at Billings & Edmonds, which provides uniforms for Eton College, in Eton, England on June 12, 2023. (Andrew Testa/The New York Times)
EditorialStudents from Eton College, which has long been a symbol of British tradition and continuity, on a street of the town, near the school in Eton, England on June 12, 2023. (Andrew Testa/The New York Times)
EditorialSen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.), who has walked a political tightrope as a Republican vocal about race, speaks at a Black History Month celebration dinner in Charleston, S.C., on Feb. 16, 2023. (Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times)
EditorialSen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.), who has walked a political tightrope as a Republican vocal about race, speaks at a Black History Month celebration dinner in Charleston, S.C., on Feb. 16, 2023. (Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times)
EditorialSen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.), who has walked a political tightrope as a Republican vocal about race, speaks at a Black History Month celebration dinner in Charleston, S.C., on Feb. 16, 2023. (Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times)
EditorialSen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.), who has walked a political tightrope as a Republican vocal about race, speaks at a Black History Month celebration dinner in Charleston, S.C., on Feb. 16, 2023. (Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times)
EditorialSen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.), who has walked a political tightrope as a Republican vocal about race, speaks at a Black History Month celebration dinner in Charleston, S.C., on Feb. 16, 2023. (Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times)
EditorialSen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.), who has walked a political tightrope as a Republican vocal about race, speaks at a Black History Month celebration dinner in Charleston, S.C., on Feb. 16, 2023. (Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times)
EditorialThe Wallenda family executes a truncated version of their signature pyramid tightrope trick at the Big Apple Circus at the Lincoln Center in New York, Nov. 20, 2022. (Seth Caplan/The New York Times)
EditorialThe Wallenda family executes a truncated version of their signature pyramid tightrope trick at the Big Apple Circus at the Lincoln Center in New York, Nov. 20, 2022. (Seth Caplan/The New York Times)
EditorialChinese Arabesque with a Tightrope Walker. Dated: c. 1795. Dimensions: plate: 19.3 x 13.8 cm (7 5/8 x 5 7/16 in.) sheet: 22.2 x 17 cm (8 3/4 x 6 11/16 in.). Medium: etching inked la poup e in black, gray, blue, green, golden-brown, pink, and olive g...