November 2020

‘The events of this year, agonizing though they have been, have only confirmed the role of the US as the leader among nations.’


Diary November 1, 2020

Monuments and memorials in Maryland

For about a dozen square blocks in its center, 18th-century Easton is as European-looking as any small town in the United States

Christopher Caldwell

Place November 1, 2020

Prussian blues

It took me 30 years of traveling to learn that my Heimat is Prussia

William Cook

Home November 1, 2020

Is my phobia of upmarket restaurants misplaced?

For all its art and famous clientele, the Colombe d’Or is no more than an upmarket canteen

Jeremy Clarke

Home November 1, 2020

Bring back small high schools

A school, whether consisting of one room or 20 rooms, ought to embody and reinforce a sense of place

Bill Kauffman

High Life November 1, 2020

What Barbara Black’s choice of friends says about her

Conrad Black is a terrific writer-historian, as is Barbara Black

Taki

Place November 1, 2020

Killing time in Thailand

By Day 11, I understand why my windows are sealed shut and why I am not allowed knives

Constance Watson

Nice and nasty

The mother of all school controversies

Emily Ferguson

Media November 1, 2020

The paranoid style in left-wing politics

The reality is that conspiracy theories are now more ubiquitous on the left than they are on the right

Toby Young

The myth of the ‘stolen country’

What should the Europeans have done with the New World?

Jeff Fynn-Paul