What our elites seek is coercion by apocalypse, transforming our free society as we know it
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Fox is very transparent about what’s hard news, which are opinion shows and which are hybrid shows
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A rising tide of money and administrative power defines the rising autocracy
By Joel Kotkin
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I’m more afraid of how governments will weaponize a new variant than of the Omicron variant itself
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The China ‘struggle’ that Xi lays before the world will define the next generation of American foreign and security policy
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The Globe Theatre in London has launched a project to do just that
By Peter Jones
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When our restaurant scene is rebuilt, perhaps there will be room once again for the humble dive
By Matt Purple
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The pandemic has both revealed and accelerated class differences that have been decades in the making
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The long march of the cultural revolution has succeeded beyond its wildest dreams
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Our choices are constrained by the needs of our internal order
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The Reformation was a top-down affair, an agenda imposed by a cultural and political elite
By Grayson Quay
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If we are ‘back’ to anything, it is the blundering of the George W. Bush administration on the sands of Iraq and the levees of Louisiana
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More than a year after war broke out, the country is in need of steady leadership
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Native Americans are being exploited by self-interested settler-colonists — yet again
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The best city in the world is in decline and its denizens don’t seem to notice
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Books + Arts
The Original Bambi: The Story of a Life in the Forest by Felix Salten reviewed
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James Joyce’s Ulysses caused a sensation on its publication a century ago
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The pre-woke literary world considered authorial freedom sacrosanct
By Alex Perez
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Réginald-Jérôme de Mans evokes a Parisian world of glittering elegance
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Substack gives authors an opportunity to take back control of their own careers and destinies
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Kandinsky is getting spun up the Guggenheim’s spiral
By Mario Naves
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Wynton Marsalis has not allowed tradition to become self-serving traditionalism
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Inspiring Walt Disney makes the case that Disney’s studio functioned in a similar way to an eighteenth-century decorative art manufactory
By Jane Coombs
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He carries his latest film and keeps it from going off the rails
By Alex Perez
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He lent ‘A Hard Day’s Night’ the spirit of untamed frivolity
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Not just women’s health but sexual health in general has been understudied by the medical community for a long time
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Life
Is this the future of American culture, already a contradiction in terms, or is it progressivism, as some call the chaos?
By Taki
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Staten Island offers the spiritual antonym to elitist performances such as the Met Gala and the Oscars that peddle a distortion of American life
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‘Glass of bubbly, Marigold?’ I asked Catriona’s sister at a quarter to nine on the first morning of her visit
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How do we celebrate when all the old pleasures have been pathologized?
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Mark Twain would be hopelessly out of favor with both wings of the modern duopoly
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To summon your brethren to raise a City Upon a Hill as a beacon to all mankind is a pretty tall order
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To own occupies a semantic field which turns out to be a Grimpen Mire
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Place
Sisi was the first royal celebrity of the modern age
By William Cook
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Food and Drink
The greatest human spirits would view the new era of show-your-papers dining not as a hardship, but as an opportunity
By Jane Stannus
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What energy drink, I ask myself, will aid an energetic think?
By Ben Sixsmith
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One thing we all agreed on was cheese, cheese, cheese and more cheese — calories be damned
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