It will take some time to reassure the world that the UK is a model of self-government
By Conrad Black
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The kids are not all right, and the experts have been sounding alarms for years
By Jesse Singal
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Biden is doing trans activists’ bidding and young Americans will suffer
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For Aristophanes, communism was one long, uproarious joke
By Peter Jones
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Gen Z is realizing that approval from a fancy university isn’t the only path to success
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The great emancipation of women has brought the great emasculation of our brothers
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As its institutional order rots, will the American right be ascendant?
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To say he’s the most indefatigable promoter that ever lived is an understatement
By Art Tavana
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Abortion once scrambled the country’s politics. It will do so again
By Ben Domenech
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How can I extol the virtues of anti-racism while birthing another white person?
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A bootblack is a bootblack in the eyes of the lobbyists and lawyers
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The foreign policy guru sits down with The Spectator
By Andrew Roberts and Henry Kissinger
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I’m in Hanoi for a month as part of my Walking the World project
By Chris Arnade
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The special counsel exploded a ‘resistance’ myth
By Eli Lake
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Joe Biden, take note: you’re no Ronald Reagan
By Matt Purple
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Historically, many psychedelics were used as divinatory tools
By Birdie Hall
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Joe Biden is an errand boy, a figurehead, and he has outlived his plausibility
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Perhaps surprisingly, Judaism does not have a black-and-white stance on the issue
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Books + Arts
He had a major but unsung inspiration: the now-neglected novelist William Gerhardie
By William Boyd
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And his biographies of great lives sparkle nicely
By James Snell
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Narco-states, rogue oil kingdoms… this sequel novel has it all
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Why do we find the dark side of sexuality so terrifying?
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A new book makes you ask, somewhat apprehensively, what will happen there next
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After a controversial postponement, the Philip Guston retrospective has landed in Boston
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We’re All Going to the World’s Fair is an important film about the internet
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Recalling the moral clarity of Lillian Hellman’s The North Star
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The band’s return is not just welcome but overdue
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On the fiftieth anniversary of his death, it’s well worth revisiting his remarkable career
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Cultural mavens shouldn’t miss out on a knockout exhibition curated by Emily King
By Mario Naves
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Life
Switch, alas, to the present: surgery as spectacle stretches the limits of disgust
By Taki
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There was a wall of books, ashtrays from the golden age of smoking and an air of greater liberty
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I waited twenty years for the Tina call — but alas I suspect I’ve got a lot more waiting to do
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Albert Brisbane somehow avoided sharing the wealth with his neighbors
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Postmodern man is characterized by an obsession with technique and technology
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Place
The Passion Play was political, and not even particularly religious
By Roger Lewis
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The people are still here but their great cities have been swallowed by the jungle
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Food and Drink
We live in the era of the overmarketed, oversweetened, overpriced and overexplained cocktail
By Zoe Strimpel
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Plus a recipe for Saugatuck Succotash
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It’s up there with the best New York and London have to offer
By Hannah Moore
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A little ‘global warming’ has done wonders for England’s wine harvests
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And Finally
And is collecting it on private property a civil right?
By Teresa Mull
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Nice, as in ‘a nice cup of tea,’ was a word loathed by my schoolmistresses
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