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‘The events of this year, agonizing though they have been, have only confirmed the role of the US as the leader among nations.’
The wars go on
Seventy-five years after the end of World War Two we still have forces in Britain, Japan, Germany and Italy
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How to confront uncertainty
If there’s any lesson we should take from 2020 it is that it can get worse and often does
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The demise of America has been greatly exaggerated
To be an American is to move ever forward, in pursuit of that ‘more perfect union’
By Matt Purple
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Onwards and upwards
American democracy, American power and influence are not dying, and neither are they under threat
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Why is the Republican party symbol an elephant and the Democratic symbol a donkey?
In the mid-20th century the Democratic party was officially using a rooster, while the Republicans used an eagle
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But seriously: will Trump refuse to leave?
A big Biden win is the only way to minimize civil strife
By Paul Wood
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Atlas shrugs
The establishment doesn’t think he’s an expert. He disagrees
By Amber Duke
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Will we ever know the truth about Russiagate?
Every revelation, though it sheds some local light, actually makes the whole picture murkier
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Being pro-Trump has caused me more grief than being Osama bin Laden’s niece
Why do I support Donald Trump? Look at his record
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Books + Arts
Is Billie Eilish really in shock over James Bond?
‘Shock’, from the French ‘choque’, began as the word for a collision of armies
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Capital entertainment
London’s West End: Creating the Pleasure District, 1800-1914 by Rohan McWilliam reviewed
By Max Décharné
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Escape vehicle
The automobile’s artifice is its art, but it is still an art of artifice
By James Panero
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Middle-age crisis
The Light Ages: The Surprising Story of Medieval Science by Seb Falk reviewed
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The author in full: Tom Wolfe
Wolfe excelled at capturing human foibles and petty vanities; anything deeper than that escaped him
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Roman bloodbaths
The Last Assassin: The Hunt for the Killers of Julius Caesar by Peter Stothard reviewed
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The Disneyfication of the moral universe
Adults have chosen to understand the world through the prism of superheroes, wizards and Jedi knights
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The sorry history of London’s Hoover Building
Several other Thirties buildings from American firms survive in west London
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Days of glory
Ravenna: Capital of Empire, Crucible of Europe by Judith Herrin reviewed
By Ian Thomson
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Their Majesties the Presidents
Gimson’s Presidents: Brief Lives from Washington to Trump by Andrew Gimson reviewed
By Harry Mount
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Life
The trouble with America’s ‘systemic racism’
The United States has been no more racist, unequal and oppressive than most racially pluralist countries
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My Aunt Beryl’s zinc-lined trunk revealed extraordinary family secrets
Out of an envelope fell an original poem scribbled and signed by Rudyard Kipling
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Homes, sweet homes
A few years ago, for reasons I can’t recall, I acquired a donkey hut in the Molise
By Roger Lewis
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From Cool to Cringe: what’s happened to American culture?
What’s happened to American culture?
By Will Lloyd
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Monuments and memorials in Maryland
For about a dozen square blocks in its center, 18th-century Easton is as European-looking as any small town in the United States
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Prussian blues
It took me 30 years of traveling to learn that my Heimat is Prussia
By William Cook
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Is my phobia of upmarket restaurants misplaced?
For all its art and famous clientele, the Colombe d’Or is no more than an upmarket canteen
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Bring back small high schools
A school, whether consisting of one room or 20 rooms, ought to embody and reinforce a sense of place
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What Barbara Black’s choice of friends says about her
Conrad Black is a terrific writer-historian, as is Barbara Black
By Taki
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Killing time in Thailand
By Day 11, I understand why my windows are sealed shut and why I am not allowed knives
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The paranoid style in left-wing politics
The reality is that conspiracy theories are now more ubiquitous on the left than they are on the right
By Toby Young
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The myth of the ‘stolen country’
What should the Europeans have done with the New World?
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