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Education
The inexperience at the top is on full display
By David Christopher Kaufman
Middle East
The country is a test case for the survival of nationalism everywhere
By Daniel McCarthy
Politics
The current of viciousness and unthinking sloganeering, so at odds with the stated purpose of these pampered institutions, is breathtaking
By Roger Kimball
Paw patrol
‘How you care for a Chinese hairless is going to be different than a Husky’
By Mitchell Jackson
Spectator Editorial
At some point, we must realize the rest of the world is playing with a different rulebook. It’s time Western governments acknowledge this and start establishing structures that help us build for the future
By Spectator Editorial
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
Virtual worlds contain very real gold mines
By Ross Anderson
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
Book Review
The celebrated American photojournalist and filmmaker is little known around the world
By Paul Levy
‘Climate change is like my niece. It’s getting hotter every year’
By James Delingpole
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
Television
It was innovative in exploring themes not present in the original novel or 1980s show
By Oliver Jia
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
Her letters show that she was still traveling in her mid-thirties
By Claire Lowdon
Even the dismal Rebel Moon will do little to check the filmmaker
By Alexander Larman
Romance is her religion. It’s time she turned to something bigger
By Teresa Mull
Why is it acceptable to part ways on a chipper note of menace?
By Chadwick Moore
Place
Après skiing in Japan, nothing else will really compare
By Lara Prendergast
Business
What is it about this beer that’s made it stand the test of time?
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
Overhead the Milky Way was beginning to show, faintly emergent from the celestial depths, the existential wastes of eternity
By Chilton Williamson, Jr.
There is a world of wine out there
In democratic Athens (fifth century BC), free speech in the citizens’ assembly and the courts was called isêgoria, meaning ‘equality of speaking’
By Peter Jones
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