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Book Review
Rupert Shortt writes with honesty, intelligence and generosity
Nick Spencer
Education
Recent findings in both archaeology and DNA reveal that many of the stories we once regarded as fantasy appear to be true (or true-ish)
Ed West
‘West is best’ has been axiomatic for centuries, so this is the cultural equivalent of the earth’s magnetic poles flipping around
Sean Thomas
International
It’s difficult to think of a single democratic leader apart from Macron who was in power during the pandemic who has survived
Toby Young
Politics
Karen Bass was thousands of miles away as the California wildfires devastated Los Angeles
Grace Curley
Europe
If any government or political party wants to do something about the scandal, they will need to stop reviewing and start acting
Douglas Murray
This time around, it feels very different from eight years ago
Ben Domenech
As her ex-husband stands humiliated by the impotence of his leadership, perhaps his ex-wife may offer him some of her self-help wisdom
Arabella Byrne
What does the president’s cabinet mean for America abroad?
Economics
Is digital currency more than just a gamble?
Ross Anderson
Pandemic contrarians come into their own
Neal Pollack
The Price of Victory has been edited with precision, percipience and lightness of touch
Allan Mallinson
A new collection from Penguin Classics takes fourteen stories from the last decade of the writer’s life
David Vernon
The novel is as much a historical artifact as a work of fiction
D.J. Taylor
It’s not your standard biopic
Deborah Ross
The wine is eminently drinkable, by which I mean two people can get outside of a bottle before they can say ‘antipasto’
Roger Kimball
Chicago’s legendary liqueur… isn’t as bad as people say
Ed Zotti
We zipped the baby into the only snowsuit and trooped out, snowballs first on the agenda
Priscilla M. Jensen
Their capacity to be as boring as the rest of us is a great cultural equalizer
Cosmo Landesman
It was clearly inspired by satirical American and British shows about politics
The goals aren’t the same in each place — and some movements are far more serious than others
Dave Seminara
Spectator Editorial
In almost every role that matters, Trump has opted for a nominee who has been an extreme critic of the very body he or she is set to oversee
Diary
The American people are tired of having the wool pulled over their eyes by Democrats
Scott Jennings
Place
How I became a Japowder junkie
Amy Rose Everett
Gabriel’s Moon is the welcome return of one of Britain’s most reliably gripping novelists
Philip Womack
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