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‘What’s really happening in America is a crisis of authority, from the White House down to your local police precinct. This in turn derives from a crisis in America’s identity — and that’s not about race or racism. It is a crisis in national confidence.’
What does it mean to go ‘stir crazy’?
Only now I discover my assumptions about that phrase were wrong
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What we need is social media distancing
Social media brings out the worst in us because the algorithm rewards us for being tribal, divisive and emotional
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Just-one-knee syndrome
They took a knee, as it were, when what they should have done was throw themselves to the ground
By Toby Young
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Jared and the Jews
Kushner is a Jewish American Hofjude, a privileged fixer with connections
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Is this the end of history?
George Floyd was a pretext, not a cause. The cause was destruction of our civilization
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Bright lights, abandoned city
Americans are no longer moving to their shining cultural capital
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No justice, no peace
What’s really happening in America is a crisis of authority, from the White House down to your local police precinct
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The new inequality
We’re experiencing an unhealthy overcorrection in racial politics
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Books + Arts
Candid camera
Jacques Henri Lartigue composed his photographs like a painter
By William Boyd
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Hello, boys: Lucas Cranach’s bodies beautiful
Why look at black-and-white books? You want the good stuff
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Revolution then: The Patriot stands alone
Gibson achieves peace of mind by dismembering a redcoat with a hatchet
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Something woke this way comes
Strange Rites: New Religions for a Godless World by Tara Isabella Burton reviewed
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Money trouble
Foretelling the End of Capitalism: Intellectual Misadventures Since Marx by Francesco Boldizzoni reviewed
By Frank Lawton
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Tori rebel
Resistance: A Songwriter’s Story of Hope, Courage and Change by Tori Amos reviewed
By Andrew Doyle
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The fatwa artists
Twitter mobs are making journalism and literature more boring
By Matt Purple
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Life
Stargazing under lockdown
The late great American astronomer Leslie Peltier was onto something
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In praise of French doctors
Thirty-five years ago, my nurse had competed against an English team who played rugby with a violence that was incredible
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Switzerland is now an enemy of the rich
The new socialist regime in Bern is out to kill the golden calf and is succeeding
By Taki
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Can COVID-19 tell whether a protest is progressive?
Clearly the virus targets especially working-class and middle-class workplaces and industries…
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Food and Drink
Born Toulouse: varietals, vermouth and verse
Pinot Noir ‘should be approached like a beautiful woman — with respect, some knowledge, and great hopes’
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