‘The Spectator is firmly in favor of actual debate, not just performative chest-puffing’
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Paris, 1969, came surging back. I gave Martin black hair, for some reason
By William Boyd
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Twisted incentives are fueling the obesity crisis. These campaigners want to fix that
By Teresa Mull
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Nobody is morally entitled to buy or have whatever they want, especially a human baby
By Birdie Hall
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Something changed post-Covid — and it may explain RFK Jr.’s rise in the polls
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These are the factions that will decide who wins the nomination
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Once again, the GOP has Three Stooges syndrome
By Ben Domenech
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Seneca would have seen King Charles’s reaction as an admirable act of mercy
By Peter Jones
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All Trump has to do is stay out of jail long enough to get back into the Oval Office
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For the FBI and other agencies, going too far has been worth it in the past
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‘I want to debate Biden on all the failed promises he made,’ says the Tiger King star
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Sixty years on, I still can’t bear to think about it
By Anne Seymour
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The only black men now being showcased are those who’ve conceded their masculinity
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Time and again we are told that in pursuit of a cleaner planet, we all have to be miserable
By Amber Duke
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Race is not where we find it — it is where we put it
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To the extent the former president has a worldview of his own, it is best understood as a smorgasbord of nationalism and pseudomercantilism
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A decade ago, Calloway was all the rage, an Instagram celebrity with actual writing talent, a pretty face and a promising future
By Kara Kennedy
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Dr. George Church and Ben Lamm say they’re not creating a real-life Jurassic Park
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Books + Arts
Richard Russo doesn’t do fireworks. Dazzling metaphorical flights are not his thing
By D.J. Taylor
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It may be the Great American Novel critics have searched for
By Aaron Gwyn
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In The Romantic, it’s as if Boyd has distilled the essence of centuries of novel-writing
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We May Dominate the World is a work of prodigious scholarship, featuring an extraordinary breadth and depth of sources
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For the author, transgenderism was an escape hatch
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With a new Netflix documentary and series, the actor is ubiquitous once again
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The play is, alas, unlikely to attract a large following in the theater
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Despite her institutional recognition in France, Richier is not as well-known outside her native country as she deserves to be
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The cultural hegemony of contemporary abstract art is slowly beginning to crack
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Life
The luminous little village still retains signs of a bygone civilized era
By Taki
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Jordan Peterson would be appalled by a man like me — sixty-eight going on sixteen
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I have finally encountered an umpire I would despise, disparage, spit upon, kick, and, yes, kill
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For my money the only ‘cocktail’ worthy of the name is the classic martini, together with the gimlet
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Place
An old Lourdes hand said that if newcomers don’t ‘run for the hills’ after two days, they usually return
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A charming country town proves the highlight of a trip south
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Food and Drink
The star pastry chef wanted to be a forensic pathologist. Luckily for New York diners, she chose baking instead
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Seeking out a roadside picnic table and laying out the family’s lunch will slow you down. Delay or delight? The choice is yours
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Every American region manifests its character through food
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The ubiquitous fruit is everywhere: in smoothies, on toast, served at breakfast, lunch and dinner, on t-shirts and all over social media
By Louise Gray
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Recipes for humble country food mix with photos, memories and tips for entertaining
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He had a plan for his vineyard — and he saw it through
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And Finally
To use ‘mid’ as an insult is to smuggle in a premise about the insulter
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The French slang macchabée and the English macabre both originate in the danse macabre
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