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Life
We could hear the throb of music coming from the rooftop bar — but felt no temptation to visit
Toby Young
Diary
We invite everybody over that doesn’t have a place to go
Drea de Matteo
How the South Park guys rescued a local icon of their childhoods and mine
Stephen L. Miller
Culture
The drive to inspire has been overtaken by the gratuitous need to moralize
Marc Oestreich
Campaign 2024
The donation requests will continue unless morale improves
Grace Curley
People living in the United States have traditionally been pretty philanthropic, but the trend is changing
Teresa Mull
Law
Our nation has now crossed the precipice of using the legal system to persecute political enemies
Joseph Moreno
Science & Tech
It’s horrifying how large and how fast-growing the robot companion market is
Mary Wakefield
Politics
Do conservatives have the edge with moderates in the trans-rights argument?
Charles Lipson
Europe
Ball in Britain’s court, I suppose
Douglas Murray
‘Irish politics is different to British politics and American politics, which are very much driven by social media,’ says Michael Collins
Joanna Bell
Karla’s Choice plays out as a clever, loving, sporadically tongue-in-cheek addition to the very best of John le Carré’s work
A.S.H. Smyth
On November 23, the video game World of Warcraft celebrated its twentieth anniversary. That’s no small thing
Sam Leith
Bound in a web of connectivity, the serviceberry produces sufficient food for humans and other animals, and is an outstanding example of wealth consisting in ‘having enough to share’
Caspar Henderson
Exploring the relationship between the cello and its player, Kate Kennedy describes how Anita Lasker-Wallfisch’s musical gift enabled her to survive not just one but two Nazi death camps
Alexandra Coghlan
The term ‘coquille St. Jacques’ really refers to the king scallop itself, as opposed to a specific preparation
Olivia Potts
As a father you are part prison guard, three parts beat cop
Billy McMorris
Until last year, I found it increasingly difficult to find spectacle frames that paid tribute to the style I liked — Horn of Africa militia chic
Aidan Hartley
Yule regret it in the morning
Ross Anderson
It was clearly inspired by satirical American and British shows about politics
A new generation armed with microphones and little else takes center stage
Aidan McLaughlin
Harris lost ground in all demographics except one. Where did Democrats go wrong?
Amber Duke
You can’t be openly hostile to men for two decades and expect to retain the male vote
Bridget Phetasy
Book Review
Drink
What if I told you that some of the most spectacular wines in Italy were made from the Cabernets (Sauvignon and Franc) and Merlot?
Roger Kimball