The residual effects of lockdowns and school closures have proved to be serious and sticky
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Today’s Oscar-nominated films are generally bleak, confusing and interminable
By Joan Collins
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The social-justice therapist reduces clients to avatars of gender, race and ethnicity
By Sally Satel
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‘What does MBA really stand for?’
By Josie Cox
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No pair has benefited more from equal representation in cronyism
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The movement that took on Roe v. Wade is now targeting racial preferences
By Amber Duke
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What a pity that his warnings were not heeded twenty-five years earlier
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Yes, that one in the byline is my own — and I couldn’t abandon it if I tried
By Matt Purple
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I have two hours to kill before my train to Lviv, so I do what anyone would do
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They will be kowtowing to Beijing for the foreseeable future
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In the end there were just too many trunks full of classified documents
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Debates about racism are framed largely through whiteness and white privilege
By Kenan Malik
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The national security state has far more secrets than it can reasonably be expected to protect
By Eli Lake
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The colorful catalogs produce volumes of sun-drenched joy for the Vitamin D-deprived
By Teresa Mull
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Capitalism always wins — and sometimes I’m the loser
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In the City of Brotherly Love, voters are losing patience with civic dysfunction
By Nick Russo
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Thin is in — and new drugs promise a medical revolution
By Kara Kennedy
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Books + Arts
Historians ask ‘What?’ Novelists ask ‘What if?’
By Dan Jones
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His books and television adaptations keep coming, but we know little of J.R.R. Tolkien’s life
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The new biography Ringmaster unpacks a controversial legend
By Art Tavana
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This book doesn’t pretend that its subjects are twenty-first century people in different clothes
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Meet the world’s bestselling author, a self-made forty-three-year-old mom you probably haven’t heard of
By Anmol Irfan
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Pullman’s color palette is of vibrant grays. He rejects absolute goods and evils
By Matt Purple
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As an adult film magnate, he profited off the broken aspects of our society for years
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To preserve an outsider artist such as her, you have to preserve the messy reality of life
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Let me tell you a secret: the theater world still adores Shakespeare, even in 2023
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Life
Today’s jet-setting yoga lover is spoiled for choice
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Norman did not put his trust in princes, but in himself, like Papa Hemingway before him
By Taki
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In the class photo of 1966 everyone is laughing, really laughing
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Bohemian London is full of men like me who now depend on the kindness of friends for life’s little luxuries
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We who refuse to spend our days caressing the wretched rectangle are fast being reduced to second-class citizenhood
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It’s a contemptible attempt at escaping the pain of being a man
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Place
Every Dublin trip should end with drinks, live music and cheeky cigarettes with friends new and old
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Food and Drink
The Nashville restaurant has been in operation without interruption and under the same family ownership for eighty-nine years
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The world, admits the faster, isn’t my oyster — it’s God’s oyster
By Jane Stannus
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The mere fact it is on that liminal, edgy, Mexico-American borderland adds a definite frisson
By Sean Thomas
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As goes Copenhagen’s Noma, so goes the industry
By Zoe Strimpel
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The Cusanusstift motto is ‘drink wine and do good’ — what’s not to like?
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And Finally
The sport involves dogs finding live rats inside pneumatic tubes
By Neal Pollack
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It is a pity to lose the distinctive meaning of bunch — and its abusers don’t sound smart
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