When they arrive in newsrooms, privileged young people bring their values and priorities with them
By Jesse Singal
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If the right will take a stand against the new racial obsessions, the American public stands ready to give its support
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Frankly, it’s a wonder we are allowed to read him at all
By Rod Liddle
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Black and white America alike suffer from the failure of functional older men to socialize younger men
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Let’s get the myths out of the way: COVID wasn’t the main driver behind the recent crime surge
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Children and families are the hottest topics in politics — and I can’t help but feel left out
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The summer gleams with potential — and once again the epithets have started to fly
By Matt Purple
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Today, the Democratic version of patriotism seems to be an endless stream of resentment and self-loathing
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Ebrahim Raisi was — and remains — Iran’s hanging judge
By Paul Wood
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Chicago is turning into New York, only with worse weather
By Ed Zotti
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Trillions of dollars have flowed through the Pentagon’s war budgets in the last two decades
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If America is to remain a superpower, the age of elective wars must end
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‘I do think that with the rise of this really crazy right, you have to turn to social psychology for an explanation’
By Tom Holland and Francis Fukuyama
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Books + Arts
Nowhere does the gap between coverage and reality seem bigger than in the field of technology and the internet
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Two-Way Mirror: The Life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning by Fiona Sampson reviewed
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Halston made American sportswear as chic as anything Paris couture houses were turning out
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Björn Andrésen is now tall and painfully thin with long silver hair and a matching beard that belong on Merlin
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No one played the blues like Mike Bloomfield
By Ben Lazarus
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Tokyo Redux by David Peace reviewed
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The Republic of False Truths by Alaa Al Aswany reviewed
By Suzi Feay
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The Invisible Painting: My Memoir of Leonora Carrington by Gabriel Weisz Carrington reviewed
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I hope more and more people will find the courage to speak the truth as they see it
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Checkmate in Berlin: The Cold War Showdown that Shaped the Modern World by Giles Milton reviewed
By Adam Sisman
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How to Love Animals: In a Human-Shaped World by Henry Mance reviewed
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Life
The prevailing assumption has been that the natural historical trend is leftward
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That test drive was bliss, something like the feeling of your first cigarette after your third drink
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I started at the word gifting like a horse shying at a plastic bag caught in the hedge. Why didn’t I like it?
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My great-grandfather George’s mother was from the fairground ‘Barkers’
By Melissa Kite
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The fashion industry is as venal and corrupt as, say, the art world
By Taki
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The lines that now smudge my map look more like the flight of a woozy bluebottle than the traces of a man with a plan
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Vitriolic pamphlets directed against Augustus were initially met with written rebuttals
By Peter Jones
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Lately my afternoons are spent with America’s no. 1 blues harmonica player and his tongue-blocking techniques
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Place
‘You can get away from everything,’ said Harold Wilson of the Isles of Scilly, ‘not only in distance but also in time’
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Food and Drink
Few if any breakfasts equal those I’ve consumed at Coleen’s Kitchen
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The weight of history — a seemingly infinite vista of incident — hangs heavy in the Languedoc in the South of France
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‘He’s a guy’s guy’, my father would say of Willard. Less known was that Willard was also a lobster gal’s guy
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The Ladies’ Charity Cookbooks are neglected historical artifacts
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