‘We need a careful but determined uncoupling from China’s vast economy. When the COVID-19 crisis passes, America must deploy an industrial policy to strike a better balance between globalization and the national interest.’
Professing virtues
Not since the late 19th century in Germany have the Herr Professor Doktors been held in such high esteem
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Neocons come home to roost
Reagan was tarred as an extremist in much the same terms as Trump. Yet the neocons supported him
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Last of the playboy adventurers: remembering Peter Beard
Leaving Africa removed the authentic core that justified the hedonism of the rest of his life
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Malevolent depravity: the rise of PrEP
A successful anti-Aids drug is wreaking havoc
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Bannon’s one agenda in the White House was China
Bannon was pushed out by Jared Kushner, because Kushner wanted to do business with China and Saudi
By Taki
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Our exile in London
The rich are in their country cottages tweeting about social distancing and playing videos of cats playing violins
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Is this the Boog?
First the government makes you wear a mask to go to the supermarket. Next they’ll be after your guns
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Wuhdunnit? We have only suspicions, not proof
The idea that the virus is man-made is not just a crazy theory that Trump got from one of his golf buddies
By Paul Wood
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We need a Pompeo Plan to tame the dragon
The demagogues’ answer is to repatriate American production overnight. But this is impossible
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Let’s blame China
Much of the western media is behaving like a subsidiary of the Chinese Communist party
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Xi’s useful idiots against free speech
Free-thinking people everywhere should condemn those among us who facilitate China’s lies
By Toby Young
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Rebuilding #MeToo
Just because politics took the movement and made it toxic, doesn’t mean we can’t take it back
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A new balance
America must deploy an industrial policy to strike a better balance between globalization and the national interest
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Books + Arts
Consider the lilies
Blooming Flowers: A Seasonal History of Plants and People by Kasia Boddy reviewed
By Peter Parker
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I hate the Nineties
The Nineties began in hope but ended in disaster
By Ben Sixsmith
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The rise and fall of Peter Bogdanovich
David Thomson talks to the director about Buster Keaton, Orson Welles and falling out of favor with Hollywood
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The modern art of stupid-smart
We’ve always had bogus public intellectuals, but never before have they been quite so bogus
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Articles of War
In this excerpt from his autobiography Signatures: Literary Encounters of a Lifetime, David Pryce-Jones meets the survivors of the 20th century
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Bump in the night
Blithe Spirits: An Imaginative History of the Poltergeist by S.D. Tucker reviewed
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Rach’s progress
Rake’s Progress: My Political Midlife Crisis by Rachel Johnson reviewed
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Life
Horrors of the plantation
Former slaves who worked for wages still had to buy food from the plantation shop: they were trapped
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A June election in Genesee County
We will learn once more that ’tis better to be a flower-seeker than a power-seeker
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It’s the eschatology, stupid
What should Christians think about the pandemic?
By Luke Coppen
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Czar quality
Under the czars and the communists, Georgia was where Russians went to party
By William Cook
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Keeping up with the Santorums
Lockdown in Virginia with the former senator’s huge family
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Back to the future
How the post-pandemic world could resemble the 1950s
By Michael Lind
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Food and Drink
Strawberry yields forever
The ultimate summer fruit, if you can afford it
By Jane Stannus
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