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Heavy metal
While everyone’s still obsessing about gold, it’s worth taking a look at copper
Merlin Marr-Johnson
Bear hugs
Bear hugs and kind words are not enough
Owen Matthews
Somali Americans in Minnesota have falsely claimed funds meant to feed low-income children
Isaac Schorr
Cockburn’s Diary
Plus: Minnesota not-so-nice
Cockburn
Cross-examination
Piers took on a prosecutorial mode, but Nick Fuentes made no attempt to hide his beliefs
Science
The greed and naiveté of our institutions could play into the hands of the Chinese surveillance state
Ian Williams
Hostile takeover
The sale would create a monopoly the likes of which has never been seen before in the film industry
Alexander Larman
Politics
The President hosted the Kennedy Center Honors and joked about changing its name
Neal Pollack
Aldous Huxley
Aldous Huxley understood quite intuitively that technology begins to enslave us
Max Horder
Keeping it surreal
Truth to tell, surrealism lent itself to individuals who were inherently off-the-beam
Mario Naves
It has been a long, lucrative ride
Matt Ridley
Train Dreams, often hailed as a ‘miniature masterpiece,’ is not a story of defeat
Veronica Clarke
The Uncool wants to be as honest as that teenager
Art Tavana
A durable national identity cannot be asserted into being
Jonathan Keeperman
Monet also captured another element of the open air: smog
Diane Cole
The pièce de résistance was roast goose with gravy and potatoes in goose fat
Jane Stannus
You can take over your parents’ farm – or local law firm – and make it your own
Gage Klipper
Summer is absolutely the wrong time to get out the smoker
Rich Cromwell
Part of the problem of contemporary interaction is that our categories are now blurred
Melanie McDonagh
The MAGA set share the predilections and tax brackets of the people they criticize
Ukraine
In Ukraine, peace will be a hard sell
Ben Clerkin
AI
The accelerated development of AI is not just a business opportunity but a strategic necessity
Spectator Editorial
Boomer bust
If the boomers wanted something, they got it, by force of numbers
Christopher Caldwell
Walking out
Four in ten women want to leave America. But where would they go?
Gavin Mortimer