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Politics
Are Republicans more interested in ideological purity than in governing the country?
By Charles Lipson
Campaign 2024
Is it not, as Tacitus suggests, human nature to hate someone whom you have so conspicuously harmed?
By Roger Kimball
Health
Any time I want to, I can calm my mind
By Neal Pollack
Art
The storied auction house is making a major change to its fee structure. What will it mean for the art world’s future?
By William Newton
Education
University administrators have permitted, indeed encouraged, this ideological tilt with bad appointments to the faculty and administration. Universities have consistently refused to discipline students who violate the their rules and trample the rights of fellow students
Have our universities forgotten their role in enforcing the social contract?
By A.G. Hamilton
The Donald just loves the sparring too much
By Grace Curley
His personal life was eventful, as any good writer’s should be
By Alexander Larman
‘How you care for a Chinese hairless is going to be different than a Husky’
By Mitchell Jackson
The inexperience at the top is on full display
By David Christopher Kaufman
Book Review
Christopher Harding is more tolerant than I am and has a greater affinity with the seekers. But he has written a very interesting book as a result
By Ian Buruma
There are car chases and speed boats and explosions so it’s giving everything an action film would give but in a clever, knowing way
By Deborah Ross
Alexander Larman’s Power and Glory is a tale of survival
By Christopher Sandford
He claims to value Christianity’s ‘dissident’ credentials, but his atheist vision of reality rests on assumptions repeatedly challenged by Jesus
By Rupert Shortt
The celebrated American photojournalist and filmmaker is little known around the world
By Paul Levy
Exhibitions
New York is great in summer, but the art scene can sometimes be fleeting
By Calla Di Pietro
Lots of offensive jokes and forced laughter
By James Delingpole
…but the original novel was still better
By Oliver Jia
The film is a vortex of jealousy, betrayal and sexual intrigue
By Dan Hitchens
Josie Cox on the steady but halting progress that women have made
By Michael M. Rosen
Drink
How to customize a classic
By Ross Anderson
Family
If anyone is sexist, it’s Mother Nature
By Bridget Phetasy
Prejudices
Overhead the Milky Way was beginning to show, faintly emergent from the celestial depths, the existential wastes of eternity
By Chilton Williamson, Jr.
It is beginning to cross over from fable into the realm of scientific fact
By Hannah Moore
Meet Missy Baldino and her Austrian-style housedresses
By Calla Jones Corner
Food
It’s often served with big, ballsy flavors such as smoked ham, although it can cope with fish and other less domineering dishes too
By Olivia Potts
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