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Business
What is it about this beer that’s made it stand the test of time?
By Teresa Mull
Spectator Editorial
The rest of the world is playing with a different rulebook
By Spectator Editorial
Life
Virtual worlds contain very real gold mines
By Ross Anderson
Film
The filmmaker has Hollywood at his feet
By Alexander Larman
Internet
Our self-styled betters have neither raised us up toward a more perfect meritocracy nor led us triumphantly into a classless paradise
By Spencer A. Klavan
Heinrich Von Kleist argues that if you don’t understand something, one way to solve the problem is to talk
By Thomas W. Hodgkinson
Many of the students at the People’s University for Palestine are masked
By Ben Appel
Arab audiences have been saturated with propaganda for six months
By Paul Wood
The unavoidable, question is where this train of insanity ends
By Roger Kimball
His extremism is likely to push Biden over the finish line
By Jacob Heilbrunn
Theater
The language itself — and the on-the-nose themes that Amy Herzog has unsubtly emphasized — feel like they could be sourced directly from Twitter/X
By Clarissa Sebag-Montefiore
Far from being closeted in her bedroom, her letters show that she was still traveling in her mid-thirties
By Claire Lowdon
It was innovative in exploring themes not present in the original novel or 1980s show
By Oliver Jia
The film is a vortex of jealousy, betrayal and somewhat repetitive sexual intrigue — but Zendaya isn’t bad
By Dan Hitchens
Book Review
Josie Cox has persuasively documented the steady but halting progress that women have made in the workplace
By Michael M. Rosen
The Nazis saw the character as a useful tool of propaganda
By Susannah Heschel
Even the dismal Rebel Moon will do little to check the filmmaker
Romance is her religion. It’s time she turned to something bigger
Why is it acceptable to part ways on a chipper note of menace?
By Chadwick Moore
The posthumously published novel has a half-baked feel
By Amelia Butler-Gallie
Drink
I have never stopped by without trying the wildest combinations in an effort to create a challenge
By Ben Domenech
American Life
That’s all he played, one single game, and it took him almost a century to get credit for it
By Bill Kauffman
Sports
It doesn’t stem from the hockey or amenities so much as the simple human connections we all hunger for
By Will Bardenwerper
A lifesize statue of the French emperor stands on the balcony. It takes a few days to get used to him
By Douglas Murray
Ours is an age that prefers the battle of ideas and opinions rather than pleasure of discovering the mysteries of another person
By Cosmo Landesman
Food
The wine and spritzes flow all day in Venice’s bàcari — traditional, low-key taverns — while bitesize, freshly — made cicchetti provide sustenance
By Estella Shardlow
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