The challenges facing the incoming president may demand more than a return to normalcy
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The president of the Philippines makes Donald Trump look like Betty Crocker
By Francis Pike
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Ezra Pound was a crank who would have been a perfect fit for the internet age
By James Harris
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Biden’s foreign policy is rooted in the mythology of the Cold War
By Matt Purple
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Trump was the mildest of corrections to the failures of post-Cold War liberalism
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Younger Berliners seem to want their lives to look as austere as possible
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Under Biden, expect intoxicated self-righteousness to make a comeback
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Biden, on or past the threshold of senility, is the embodiment of that pajama-boy spirit of fragile futility
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Many new-age fans don’t follow teams in the traditional way; they follow the players themselves
By Tim Wigmore
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They knew they were right even when they were wrong
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I’m falling out with my friend over the election fraud nonsense
By Toby Young
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Books + Arts
The Lives of Lucian Freud: Fame 1968-2011 by William Feaver reviewed
By Craig Raine
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Vonnegut did plenty to offend the conservative Christian sensibilities that characterized my educational institutions
By Grayson Quay
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Eighty years ago, Bugs Bunny first launched himself on an unsuspecting Elmer J. Fudd
By James Panero
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The Battle of the Classics: How a Nineteenth-Century Debate Can Save the Humanities Today by Eric Adler reviewed
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Life
We need to make it easier for parents to transition their children. The sooner the better
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Like most places in Switzerland, Davos is clean, tidy and full of prosperous, contented people
By William Cook
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It is refreshing and enlivening to be among the poor for a change
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In 1899, the music-hall song ‘What ho! She bumps!’, with words by Harry Castling, was a hit
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A great, even a good, novel has somehow the whole world in it, or even worlds
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There are children alive today whose offspring might possibly see the 23rd century
By Robert Gray
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The warped politics of asking your guests to remove their shoes
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Has anyone on the left heard of ‘magnanimity’?
By Taki
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Food and Drink
The enemies of manhood – liberal male bloggers – have yet to discover what they would call spiked seltzer’s fascism problem
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