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Tariffs
EU goods sold in the US will face levies of 50 percent
Matthew Lynn
Cancel Culture
It’s easy to forget just how oppressive the #MeToo moment was
Ella Whelan
The podcasters’ influence far outweighs the liberal media
Damian Reilly
Kim Possible
The woman who constructed an empire on naked selfies now longs for Beltway respectability
Cockburn
White Genocide
The fantasy persists that black people want and are stealing vast tracts of farmland
Geoff Hill
Congress
Whether they can sell it to the American people as such will be the test that likely determines the coming midterms
Ben Domenech
Anti-Semitism
The far-left has absorbed the theological and conspiratorial architecture of Islamic antisemitism
Jonathan Sacerdoti
Nuclear program
Tehran is trying to run out the clock
Charles Lipson
North Korea
Pyongyang’s desire to develop its navy is inextricably tied with the hermit kingdom’s concern with status
Edward Howell
Come and Habba go if you think you’re hard enough
Plus: Reporter fired after fake Trump event
So long as colleges rely on technology to administer exams, students stay one step ahead
John Hasson
Our need for belief in the supernatural gave rise to a demand for ‘mystical intermediaries,’ argues Manvir Singh
Mick Brown
The lights dimmed and the crowd roared as he walked on stage
Raj Tawney
Zachary Leader’s compelling biography is a powerful portrait of the man, and also the masks
Frances Wilson
The problem is that the director keeps on making films like The Phoenician Scheme
Sam Kriss
‘Funnily enough, it’s quite a nice feeling,’ he said
Toby Young
Underneath its gray, foreboding exterior, it is a joyful and exciting city
Alexander Larman
What other food could be so eloquent? What other food could communicate so much with so little force?
Kelly Chapman
The cause turned not on politics but on the heart. However absurdly, I had come to see the Holy Father as a love rival
Nicholas Farrell
The MAGA set share the predilections and tax brackets of the people they criticize
Rufo’s reckoning
‘When I go at it in these campaigns, I truly want to win and I want to win in a material way’
Great American novels
Half a century on, how does E.L. Doctorow’s great American novel fare?
D.J. Taylor
Think again
For too long, academia has stifled intellectual originality
Spectator Editorial
Notes on…
The word ‘ninja’ itself is less than 100 years old
Francis Pike
Immigration
The Dems have seized upon Garcia as a moral life jacket whose buoyancy they are counting on to save them
Roger Kimball