US EDITION OF THE WORLD’S OLDEST MAGAZINE
Television
It was innovative in exploring themes not present in the original novel or 1980s show
By Oliver Jia
Internet
Our self-styled betters have not raised us up toward a more perfect meritocracy
By Spencer A. Klavan
Life
If you don’t understand something, one way to solve the problem is to talk
By Thomas W. Hodgkinson
Virtual worlds contain very real gold mines
By Ross Anderson
Education
Many of the students are masked
By Ben Appel
Middle East
The new Middle East has endured despite six months of Arab audiences being saturated with propaganda
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
Where America goes, Britain follows
By Kate Andrews
There is an epidemic of distaff leadership in higher education
Film
The film is a vortex of jealousy, betrayal and somewhat repetitive sexual intrigue — but Zendaya isn’t bad
By Dan Hitchens
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 artistic results that have ensued with Rebel Moon will do little to check the filmmaker in his tracks
By Alexander Larman
Music Review
Romance is her religion. It’s time she turned to something bigger
By Teresa Mull
It’s depressing this entire country finds 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
Daniel de Visé’s canter through Belushi and Aykroyd’s lives and times
By D.J. Taylor
A new book on the army officer could not have been better timed
By Ian Buruma
He established a system of taxonomy we still use two centuries later
By Lynn Barber
Sports
It doesn’t stem from the hockey or amenities so much as the simple human connections we all hunger for
By Will Bardenwerper
Food
There’s nothing I like more than a pudding that looks as if you’ve put in huge amounts of effort and skill, when the opposite is true
By Olivia Potts
And Finally
I am quite retro. I like looking at the past. My husband is almost entirely so. He lives in it
By Dot Wordsworth
I have never stopped by without trying the wildest combinations in an effort to create a challenge
By Ben Domenech
That’s all he played, one single game, and it took him almost a century to get credit for it
By Bill Kauffman
London Life
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
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