The Biden administration has taken up permanent residence in a metaverse of its own fantasies
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Manhattan fêtes are rarely organized by people with newspaper deadlines
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The Florida congressman promulgates govern-by-media tactics
By Jay Caruso
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Pregnancy revealed that I didn’t know anything.
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Gas prices are climbing, Russia is building pipelines, yet we’re focused instead on appeasing climate activists
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Fauci believes himself to be the spokesperson for ‘science itself’
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The mentality of the ancient curse-tablet lives on
By Peter Jones
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I wonder whether the moment hasn’t come to begin thinking of Washington the way the later emperors thought of Rome
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Donald Trump is not just a problem for Republicans. He’s a problem for the Republic
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An online in-joke becomes real-world terrorism
By Ben Sixsmith
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Rather than facing up to the threat China poses on American college campuses, the White House seems to want us to get along happily with our friends across the Taiwan Strait
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Music is one of the hardest things to write about
By Bill Wyman
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For many activists, Glenn Youngkin is the face of a GOP that can win — with or without Trump
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How the Golden State can grow up and fix its crisis of disorder
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A tweed confers, and expresses, the manly freedom of paying no mind to one’s appearance
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Is the concept of manna from Heaven really so different than ordering from Uber Eats or Postmates?
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Like New York, London feels on the verge of anarchy already, only much livelier
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Books + Arts
A dismaying number of Proust readers don’t realize it’s supposed to be funny
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True Story: What Reality TV Says about Us by Danielle Lindemann reviewed
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Sentence: Ten Years and a Thousand Books in Prison by Daniel Genis reviewed
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Heiresses: The Lives of the Million Dollar Babies by Laura Thompson reviewed
By Anne Sebba
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Great artists like Hogarth are getting the trigger-warning treatment
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The Seventies weren’t John Wayne’s decade, and that was fine by him
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When Covid rampaged through the world like a Viking raid of death-cult realtors, the world was suddenly shorn of live music
By Luke Haines
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Both in Pittsburgh and Miami, I was struck by the rousing enthusiasm that the symphony and soloists evoked with their temerarious playing
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Life
What happened to the all-embracing, welcoming spirit emanating from the Electric Forest?
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One cannot fail to be troubled by the growing cultural divisions within the country
By Taki
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We had the perfect guide who took us off the beaten track and knew when to keep quiet
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When did sexual deviancy — as it used to be called — become so dull?
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Men and women of the working class, Catholic or not, are arraigned by progressive yappers for being socially retrograde
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Literature in the West is dead for the simple reason that the West itself is virtually dead
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Place
More than two millennia of Jewish history stalks the land that now encompasses the modern state of Iraq
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Food and Drink
Eat crêpes on Candlemas, enjoy a year of happiness, says a traditional French-Canadian proverb
By Jane Stannus
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On a cold day in winter, there is nothing as cozy as buttered toast with a thick smear of Marmite and a cup of tea in front of afternoon TV
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Fans of The Philadelphia Story will remember the starring role played by Miss Pommery 1926
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And Finally
I rather enjoy the shocked faces of passersby who catch sight of us swimmers at the Serpentine Pond in Hyde Park
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The hash has grown in importance since 2007 when Twitter introduced the hashtag
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