His self-importance and lack of strategic thinking are not a recipe for a safer world
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The Mariupol theater bombing was a mere preamble to what the world saw
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His weakness has led to the fracturing of the American-led global system
By Mary Kissel
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The West’s best hope is to rediscover a self-affirming anti-imperialism on the nationalist right
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Weariness with, and wariness of, the Cold War was very real and ought to give us pause
By Matt Purple
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Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has scrambled Asia’s geopolitics
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History can help presidents think about how to confront new challenges
By Tevi Troy
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Why is the Kennedy Center discriminating against a Catholic trumpet player?
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In an effort to make everything inclusive, we are erasing women
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Trans ideologues want to hide your child’s problems from you
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Seeing the turannos as a deviant type of king, Aristotle tested the distinction under four headings
By Peter Jones
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Savage is no cookie-cutter lefty, for all his haranguing in favour of baroque sexual lifestyles
By Zoe Strimpel
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Amid all of life’s mundanity, who doesn’t want to be an athlete?
By Josie Cox
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How conservatism’s anti-elitists defeated the establishment
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Recent clampdowns in Russia and China show just how foolish the prevailing US mood is
By Jesse Singal
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Rather than preparing to live out the rest of this century in misery, I’m now giddily optimistic
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Younger generations inherit a world in which the middle ranks are struggling almost everywhere
By Joel Kotkin
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Books + Arts
Interwar Oxford was less a world of dreaming spires and more one of constipated poets
By Daisy Dunn
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A Spy in Plain Sight: The Inside Story of the FBI and Robert Hanssen, America’s Most Damaging Russian Spy by Lis Wiehl reviewed
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Straits: Beyond the Myth of Magellan by Felipe Fernández-Armesto reviewed
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Everybody Thought We Were Crazy by Mark Rozzo reviewed
By Gavin Smith
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A certain sector of the Harry Potter fandom has decided that the author is the devil incarnate
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An exhibition of early Picasso has landed at the Phillips Collection in Washington
By Mario Naves
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Cartier’s sleek modernity finds its roots in Islamic art history
By Jane Coombs
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He isn’t for the faint of heart, but it’s worth confronting his life’s work
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Masterpiece has brought Around the World in 80 Days to the small screen
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Life
In my teens everything I read in fiction was new and believable
By Taki
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Be warned: friendship is the first casualty of truth
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I guess I’m just two degrees removed from Lime Jell-O fruit salad
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Failing to recognize the difference between learning and practical experience
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Place
A remote Chesapeake outpost is turning to soup
By Josh Glancy
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What solace Lincoln did find often came during stays in what today is known as President Lincoln’s Cottage
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Food and Drink
London’s restaurant scene has bounced back from Covid. New York’s is struggling
By Kate Andrews
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By the middle of June, nasturtiums are finished here in central California. But there are many places where they are just beginning to bloom
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Mosley’s hails from a past age but prospers fine in this one
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Brazil’s light, fruity and approachable wines are likely to find a place in the American market
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And Finally
It turns out, you only know a place as well as you know its emergencies
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