It’s getting closer to victory, conserving its strength and moving at its own pace
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Elon Musk will try but other meaningful options are starting to emerge
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A system designed to exploit will always exploit too much at its edges
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He has the energy of a politician who believes he can achieve whatever he sets his mind to
By Ben Domenech
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They took the view that all human beings were personally accountable for their actions and fully responsible for the outcomes
By Peter Jones
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There is something deeply strange, almost dystopian, in it
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What the cultured right needs is what the left has: an avant-garde
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A casual pastime appealing to limited-mobility seniors develops big ambitions
By Rosie Gray
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Seventy-six years after Churchill’s warning, Garry Kasparov castigates a complacent West
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It’s a strange and unwitting collusion between left- and right-wing actors
By Jesse Singal
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Spotted: a Spectator journalist realizing it was probably always irrelevant navel-gazing
By Amber Duke
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Will the Republicans fritter their wins away as Hannibal did after Cannae?
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Levi’s was among the wokest of the woke. And I was in on it
By Jennifer Sey
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It feels good to smile again, in the American way, blinding anyone who looks at me directly
By Matt Purple
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There is no comparison to any other work event
By Kara Kennedy
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One of the world’s most popular sports has begun to get a foothold in the US
By David Marcus
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I decided to spend some time in the Tampa suburb where he grew up
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Books + Arts
Arguably America’s greatest living novelist is back with two novels
By Dan Jones
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There are relatively few rules beyond (perhaps) a disregard for plot
By Lisa Hilton
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She remains one of American literature’s great survivors — and provocateurs
By Zoe Strimpel
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The Spaniard’s painterly skill outshines his congenital weakness for schmaltz
By Mario Naves
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She was the low-culture Mary Tyler Moore
By Art Tavana
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Falling for Christmas looks bound to be tragicomic and artless pulp, but so what?
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His stature as rock music’s greatest iconoclast shows no sign of being threatened
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Life
Here I am, a Bagel bum, braving loons all day and night in a crappy city instead of being at Badminton — and for what?
By Taki
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I lay upstairs with one of Michael’s military-grade tablets dissolving into my bloodstream
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My book has not gotten sensational reviews. It’s gotten no reviews — at least from the national press
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We took a side trip to Sonny Bono’s hometown en route to a birthday party in Indiana
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Since the French Revolution, left-wing politics have been essentially about revenge
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Place
Agios Stefanos is replete with God’s presence — despite the tourists
By Birdie Hall
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South Korea is rising while still maintaining the cultural hallmarks of its poorer days
By Josh Glancy
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Food and Drink
What Colony lacks in ash it makes up for with the world’s best pizza, one designed specifically for drinkers
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Pour into goblets and grate some nutmeg over the top. Ah, I can smell it now
By Jane Stannus
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A multicultural family is a recipe for tasty treats
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The wine is renowned for its consistency, intricacy and near-immortality
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And Finally
Crisis comes from a Greek word that also gives us critical and critic
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