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‘It’s hard to oppose, let alone revile, a man who often seems to have no idea what he is saying. Biden elicits a combination of sympathy and apathy, yet he keeps surging ahead in the polls.’
The Sex Worker of Babylon
The first usage of the term dates back to the New York Times in 1971
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American magicians in London
In 2003, David Blaine spent 44 days in a plexiglass box suspended above the River Thames. It was amazing, yes, but it wasn’t magic
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Biden is not the president America needs
First, he is old. Second, he is old-school
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Twitter has stolen my life
I’m a slave to my online persona. And she’s a slave to the algorithm, and we must feed the algorithm
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Same old same old
Politics is less bedeviled by the age of the parties’ leaders than by the staleness of the parties’ programs
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The bourgeois class is the most cowardly and easily intimidated in history
The alliance between the Intelligentsia and the Cave Anarchists, while informal, is also entirely natural and indeed inevitable
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Biden offers no change and no hope
Expect four more years of disappointment and stasis
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Godfrey’s Race to Dinner
Your vanilla voice is not welcome. Your low-pigment opinions are invalid
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The dawn of the sex pest celebrity
Why can’t the famous stop thrusting their sexuality on us?
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Books + Arts
Human after all
Singer, patriot and pioneer of social distancing, Morrissey is once again a star
By John Waters
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The spy’s spy
From CIA officer to thriller-writer: the shadowy world of J.R. Seeger
By Toby Harnden
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Last of the red-hot lovers
Great Demon Kings: A Memoir of Poetry, Sex, Art, Death, and Enlightenment by John Giorno reviewed
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Mountain heir
To the Lake: A Balkan Journey of War and Peace by Kapka Kassabova reviewed
By Hugh Thomson
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Statues and limitations
How we can reckon with the past without destroying it
By Cleo Roberts
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Life
Babies on demand: the nasty side of surrogacy
One agency shows a smiling blonde wearing a T-shirt captioned ‘I grow cute babies’
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Are we living in the golden age of political satire?
Late night hosts and comedians are hitting every slow, low Trump pitch over their plates out of the ballpark
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How to restore civility in politics
Shrink state power so radically that policy disagreements would be akin to flyweight arguments over the merits of Coke vs Pepsi
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Cardinal virtues
The Next Pope: The Leading Cardinal Candidates by Edward Pentin reviewed
By Jane Stannus
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A ticket to Rye
Rye encapsulates a quintessential sort of Englishness: creative yet conservative, cultural yet parochial
By William Cook
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Trekking towards the future
In an economy that favors black economic empowerment, Afrikaners now struggle to find their footing
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The weaponization of whining
A crack in The Narrative? A glimmer of sanity? Maybe. Well, not really
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We’re all thought criminals now
If someone is accused of being racist or transphobic they are rarely given a chance to defend themselves
By Toby Young
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What angry young French men want
As I bought the drinks, Didier told me that voluntary euthanasia was in and casino capitalism out
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The mob mentality of the elite
Wagner believed that Nietzsche went bonkers on account of an excess of masturbation. If that’s true, many present types should be in the nuthouse
By Taki
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Food and Drink
Avocado angst: is there anything safe to eat?
Such is our collective eco-anxiety that there now exists a Climate Psychology Alliance
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