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The right is willing to entertain a bewildering range of possibilities these days
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I think I’ve cornered the market in being a national conservative who actually knows anything about the entertainment industry
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Crunch time for the darling and demon of the French right
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Biden is nothing if not spectacularly persistent in the one cause that has animated his entire career
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Most of us can’t tell the difference between high-quality video games and actual war
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She stands up to her suitors and they admire her trick to delay her marriage
By Peter Jones
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Science fiction can prepare us for what happens next
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The playwright has undergone a conversion. He’s an apostate now
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How does it feel to be an American tourist in such a tourist-free world?
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Books + Arts
Seventy-five years ago, Evelyn Waugh headed to Hollywood to sell Brideshead Revisited
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Last Call at the Hotel Imperial: The Reporters Who Took On a World at War by Deborah Cohen reviewed
By Anne Sebba
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The Great Experiment: Why Diverse Democracies Fall Apart and How They Can Endure by Yascha Mounk reviewed
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American literature is intensely preoccupied with the beautiful female psychopath
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Private Notebooks: 1914-1916 by Ludwig Wittgenstein, edited and translated by Marjorie Perloff, reviewed
By Micah Mattix
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The beauty of dirty realism is that it captures regular life in all its stupefying, and sometimes transcendent, malaise
By Alex Perez
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Holbein’s heroes have arrived in New York City
By James Panero
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Ralph Vaughan Williams is caricatured as a populist purveyor of ‘folky-wolky’ melodies
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First Flight to Tokyo by Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers reviewed
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Life
After a morning at a 15th-century priory, and lunch at the Café de France, I rejoined the ranks of the alive and well
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The world needs busy people to keep turning — and someone has to pick up the tab
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Remember the last invigorating spasm before the body of the party achieved corpsehood?
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Sports would not have survived Classical Greece and the Roman Empire
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Place
Even the graffiti can’t undo the light over Athens. It bathes the city in a serene glow
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Food and Drink
The Venetians still love black food pulled from the lagoon that saved them
By Tanya Gold
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Unknowingly, my parents were playing a part in a rapidly disappearing American scene: families conversing civilly around a table
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For Easter, why not plan a crown roast of lamb?
By Jane Stannus
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Blue skies, periodic showers that freshen the verdure and intelligent governance from Ron DeSantis: no wonder they call it paradise
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And Finally
In the nineteenth century, the sport was played across Latin America
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I dislike postmodernist architecture and big business being beastly to workers, but late capitalism seems to me quite a feeble cliché
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