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‘The Spectator would like to make one appeal in this tumultuous year: for America to keep faith in democracy.’
Why must we ‘live with’ coronavirus?
Living with is a phrasal verb first applied, in the 17th century, to spouses
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Bad Kshama: meet Seattle’s worst socialist
Kshama Sawant’s attitude to Amazon has come to reach the level of a personal hatred rarely seen outside marriage
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The Democratic art of magical thinking
It is not surprising that Democrats prefer pleasing fantasy to sobering reality
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The hostages’ president
For all his faults, Trump cares about captive Americans
By Paul Wood
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Britain clambers aboard the BLM bandwagon
The public does not buy into the notion that there is ‘structural’ racism in the UK. There isn’t
By Rod Liddle
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Godforsaken: religion is vanishing from American politics
The country is undergoing a Great Unraveling
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The danger this time
The promise to live and let live rather than treat every political battle as all-out war to the death is breaking down
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How many homes are at extreme risk of wildfire?
Texas has the second-highest number of any state
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The 747 was the last moment of romance in air travel
From the ground, you almost sensed a 747 before you heard it
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Pompeo’s principles
Talking policy, paradigms and turning Trump’s instincts into reality
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Books + Arts
Monumental Mahler
The Eighth: Mahler and the World in 1910 by Stephen Johnson reviewed
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Still painting after all these years
While others have postured, Paul Resika has kept on painting
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French letters
Twentieth Century Paris: A Literary Guide for Travellers (1900-1950) by Marie-José Gransard reviewed
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The art of the presidency
What are the major artworks of the Trump years?
By Will Lloyd
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Mart and marketing
Martin Amis has written another autobiography — sort of
By D.J. Taylor
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The eyes have it
Renaissance and Baroque Art: Selected Essays by Leo Steinberg reviewed
By Eric Gibson
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A river runs through it
Magdalena: River of Dreams by Wade Davis reviewed
By Hugh Thomson
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Life
Bring back robber barons
Why can’t Amazon and Facebook do what Carnegie and Rockefeller did?
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Dickie and me
As older brothers separated by half a generation go, he has been a good one
By Digby Dent
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The demise of American schooling
Taxpayers have no reason whatever to continue to support the US educational profession, such as it is
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Salamis tactics
Piraeus was the point of entry for the notorious plague that afflicted Athens in 480 BC
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The next so-called civil war
‘To-day the doctor says I must die — all is over with me — ah, so young to die’
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My debt to Royaumont
A Spanish flag flew on the palace to protect it from the occupying Germans
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New York has turned ugly
I haven’t seen so many overflowing garbage cans or homeless people since the 1970s
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The coming stitch-up
The Tangled Web We Weave: Inside the Shadow System That Shapes the Internet by James Ball reviewed
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The new crusaders
Churches have become a target for the young and angry
By Luke Coppen
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The most locked-down couple in Eastern Europe
My wife had broken her heel and I was stricken with sciatica
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Rotten apple: New Yorkers are fleeing to the suburbs
The tradesmen have never been busier, sprucing up houses to New York tastes. White everything, I’m told
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A lament for the foreign correspondent’s house — and his hospitality
He claimed to love riots, and I have no trouble believing it
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The art of being a mistress
Nobody ever wins when dealing with the Saudis, and Juan Carlos was no exception
By Taki
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Letters from the politically homeless
Almost every Democrat voting for Trump has a story about being ostracized, shamed or losing a friend
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Food and Drink
Don’t listen to the health fascists — drink up
If alcohol can be part of a healthy lifestyle, it is difficult to demonize
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