The China model: why is the West imitating Beijing?
It is one thing to compete with China. But the minute we start copying them, we are on the path to perdition
Why do journalists keep repeating the same mistake?
The folly of single-source reporting and quiet retractions
The true cost of make-believe money
Biden commands trillions in the way previous presidents have commanded billions
Don’t worry, the Central Intersectional Agency is watching you
Soon even the Illuminati will be an equal opportunities employer with an intersectional Latinx woman as CEO
Donald Trump: businessman, politician…blogger?
We all know Donald Trump’s new ‘desk’ website is a blog. The question is, does he?
Is this a new dawn for the Spanish right?
Politics in Spain is now likely to become even more polarized, bad-tempered and aggressive
A letter from Canada: we’re handling COVID worse than you
The situation feels worse now than it did at the outset of the pandemic
The new campus harassment
It’s considered reasonable to publicly hound a female academic — if she’s branded a ‘TERF’
Facebook keeps Trump on the naughty step…for now
THE FACEBOOK OVERSIGHT BOARD HAS SPOKEN
Watch: Hillary Clinton blames the Russians for Brexit
Perhaps she’ll finally provide some evidence this time
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Books and Arts
How World War Three was narrowly averted
Nuclear Folly: A New History of the Cuban Missile Crisis by Serhii Plokhy reviewed
Audiences don’t want woke: comic-book writer Mark Millar interviewed
The creator of Jupiter’s Legacy on the joy of Catholicism and our sorry lack of male action figures
From family home to mausoleum: the Musée Nissim Camondo
Letters to Camondo by Edmund de Waal reviewed
The high and low life of John Craxton
John Craxton: A Life of Gifts by Ian Collins reviewed
From the magazine
The truth about beauty
Beauty speaks with such great immediacy because it touches something deep within us
Cousteau was the boulevardier of the oceans
For Cousteau, scientific investigation, combined with the potential for good image-making, presented an unavoidable hazard to sea life
Berlin has always been a Faustian metropolis
A new history of east and west, best and worst
How China is stoking America’s racial tensions
A government that would never dream of allowing free elections in its own country mocks America’s democratic process
Thomas Hennell should be more widely known
Thomas Hennell: The Land and the Mind by Jessica Kilburn reviewed
Made of honor: the complexities of a COVID wedding
Attention-shy couples can elope guilt-free, while bridezillas get to be bossier than ever
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