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‘From the moment Trump took the oath of office, his presidency has not been about “Trumpism”. It has been about Donald Trump. Every day of the Trump presidency is like a new episode of a reality TV show.’
Waiting game: the NFL takes the COVID challenge
The NFL is right to do everything in its power to start the season as planned
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Is Stephen Miller pursuing policy — or power?
‘He’s like Lady Macbeth. It’s someone who is so ravenous to get what they want, and instead they become a victim of their own insanity’
By Amber Duke
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Might ‘may’ kill ‘might’?
In recent years the distinction between may and might in the present tense has collapsed
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The return of the Blob
It will mean the return of competence in government — and a sense of dynamism too
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The future of populist conservatism
The anti-liberal opposition will continue to be demotic and anti-theoretic, impatient with and scornful of ideas, in public life especially
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After Trump, the reckoning
The election of Biden and Harris will not solve any of the problems that led to Trump’s election in the first place
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Why I won’t vote
If Trump wins, I reckon America will burn. If Trump loses, America will burn
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Make America Normal Again
Trump should double down on his COVID skepticism, just as Lukashenko did
By Toby Young
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Playing with fire
Democratic leaders who fail to condemn the West Coast rioters may get burned
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The right stuff
As long as Trump and his family remain the fulcrum of American politics, the GOP will be effectively without a leader
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Cuckoo Q: are the QAnon crowd as crazy as they seem?
Where we go one, we go off the deep end
By Ben Sixsmith
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An Anglo-American hero
Billy Fiske, the volunteer pilot who died to save Britain
By William Cook
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Books + Arts
City of the Sphinx
Thebes: The Forgotten City of Ancient Greece by Paul Cartledge reviewed
By Tom Holland
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We’re not going to take it — again
How the Seventies are taking us back to their future
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Know better
The Polymath: A Cultural History from Leonardo da Vinci to Susan Sontag by Peter Burke reviewed
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Liberty and death: Jacob Lawrence’s struggle for freedom
His tale is not a ‘let’s hold hands and sing for liberty’ triumph. It’s a violent, gritty and gruesome affair
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Office romance: I’m loving The Bureau
When real members of the DGSE saw the first season, they gave it a standing ovation
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Return of the patriarch
The Family Clause by Jonas Hassen Khemiri reviewed
By Boyd Tonkin
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The doctor’s dilemma
Talking Until Nightfall: Remembering Jewish Salonica, 1941-44 by Isaac Matarasso reviewed
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On the square, on the level
The Craft: How Freemasons Made the Modern World by John Dickie reviewed
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Lucky Tim
Italian Life: A Modern Fable of Loyalty and Betrayal by Tim Parks reviewed
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Life
I love Greece and the Greeks but they have destroyed Athens
Much of this city is now one long cement block after another
By Taki
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We are living in an age of cultural climate change
Without moral principles, freedom will not survive
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Our lady of hope
Notre-Dame: The Soul of France by Agnès Poirier reviewed
By Graham Robb
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Cease and resist: how to fight the illiberal left
What actions does your conscience forbid? Write a list and tape it to your refrigerator
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How to survive a heatwave
My friend the carpenter bee has expired, the dog can’t move and even the Provençal French see la canicule as an ordeal
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I was almost the Portland Athena
I closed my eyes for a moment and imagined the police’s confusion as they watched me approach them
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Enes Kanter on freedom and the bubble
‘Every morning I wake up thankful for the opportunity, but there is something that makes me feel like I’m in a cage’
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Food and Drink
A leaf from Verdi’s book
Can radicchio take root in the Pacific Northwest?
By Jane Stannus
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Pita Shack flashback
The bloody horrors that have waylaid Iraq since the 2003 invasion obliterate thoughts of its glorious past
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Jason Peters writes to entertain his friends and exasperate his enemies
No one who eats food or laughs at jokes should be without his new book
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Eye on the pies: food in the age of ‘cultural appropriation’
Am I, a not-Chinese person, allowed to make sesame buns?
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Digging for clams on the Jersey Shore
While some swear that only while barefoot can you properly detect clams, connoisseurs know that’s bosh
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