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Middle East
The terrorists have powerful incentives to delay as long as possible
By Charles Lipson
Books
How urgently the world needs his defense of what he called the Tao
By A.N. Wilson
Family
The nature of our here-today-gone-tomorrow culture is amplifying people’s innate desire for connection to things that are unchanging
By Teresa Mull
Business
It’s been a good year for unions, without much help from Democrats
By Billy McMorris
Sports
‘It sure seems like there are more red-blooded Americans patrolling our streets in Arsenal and Liverpool shirts these days. There certainly are more people tuning in to watch matches from England’s top league, too’
By Jack Holmes
He is too petrified of his extremist partners to deliver a serious plan for the future of Gaza
By Anshel Pfeffer
This is not the Dublin of Guinness and glass palaces housing tech companies
By Andrew McQuillan
The staff and writers help you stuff your stockings
By The Spectator
Our goal shouldn’t be to stifle scuffles, but to have a little fun with them
By Tim Rice
The Polish elections offered another blow to a Polish-Hungarian relations
By Will Collins
Book Review
Samantha Harvey demonstrates how binary divisions are at once meaningless and alive with hidden complexities. She invites us to step away from the choice between despair or hope for our future and embrace the creative potential of them together
By Emily Rhodes
Our writers weigh in
There is not enough football on TV not to get drawn into the Countdown to Christmas
By Daniel Darling
Comics
‘Even when the story is dark, Superman still stands for something — and we need more good guys like that’
By William Newton
In his new book, Philip Hoare moves beyond his own hand to make something reckless, marvelous and unforgettable
By Horatio Clare
Theater
In the year 2023, improbably as always, the musical proved a success
By Ross Anderson
The film may have nothing to say, but neither does a roller coaster
By Deborah Ross
The newest episodes deal with the final weeks of Princess Diana
By Alexander Larman
The seventeenth-century philosopher and playwright was a quixotic genius
By Francesca Peacock
Two authors take an ‘ecological-socialist-feminist’ approach
By Oren Harman
American Life
No filmmaker has explored the imaginative appeal of the Civil War in as much depth or from such diverse angles as Ron Maxwell
By Bill Kauffman
Internet
The internet reduces the friction of finding something but increases the friction of attaining it
By Mary Kate Skehan
London Life
What’s happening on the London fashion front?
By Cosmo Landesman
There is something about the holiday that triggers overambition in occasional cookie-bakers like myself
By Jane Stannus
It is the perfect mid-afternoon tipple: clean, light, delicate
By Roger Kimball
Place
Upon entering the restaurant, you’re instantly greeted with a sensory overload and the immediate need to bring tidings of comfort and joy
By Zack Christenson
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