January 2021

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My advice for Kamala, America’s first trans president

Godfrey Elfwick

We need to make it easier for parents to transition their children. The sooner the better
baths

James Panero

Don’t sweat it
davos

William Cook

Magic mountain
tag sale

Jeremy Clarke

French tag sales are good for my mental health
what ho
Ask Jeeves: who first came out with ‘What ho’?

In 1899, the music-hall song ‘What ho! She bumps!’, with words by Harry Castling, was a hit

Dot Wordsworth

novel
A novel ending

A great, even a good, novel has somehow the whole world in it, or even worlds

Chilton Williamson, Jr.

canada
Canada the beautiful

Bill Kauffman

tyler
The perks of a long life

There are children alive today whose offspring might possibly see the 23rd century

Robert Gray

shoes
Vote with your feet

The warped politics of asking your guests to remove their shoes

Chadwick Moore

High Life January 7, 2021

Trump supporters never stood a chance

Has anyone on the left heard of ‘magnanimity’?

Taki