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9/11 was the last time the country was truly united in its response to anything
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Slash is any fanfiction that’s anchored in a homosexual relationship
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Central Asia is going to matter substantially in terms of 21st-century geopolitics
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Despite the much-anticipated ‘shot girl summer’, life hasn’t snapped back to normal
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Substack took off because people are increasingly distrustful of mainstream media outlets
By Jesse Singal
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The war on liberal education is an assault on liberal democracy
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The true cost of the disaster in Iraq may still have to be paid
By Paul Wood
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Islamism has every reason to triumph in Afghanistan. But its triumph may be its undoing
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Can the President survive without the global media?
By Freddy Gray
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I had been receiving Trump’s fundraising emails for years and certainly the language had always been insistent. But this was a new level of aggression
By Matt Purple
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Average Europeans live much nicer lives than average Americans
By Sean Thomas
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The disappearance of working writers in the Hamptons mirrors the absence of writers in US public life
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Books + Arts
Dick loved a friendly contest with the woke and PC crowd of yore
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Podcasts are the perfect environment to create parasocial connections
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Bright Star, Green Light: The Beautiful Works and Damned Lives of John Keats and F. Scott Fitzgerald by Jonathan Bate reviewed
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Even if many of the themes are elusive on first listening, the language explodes
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The people have a right to know what’s on Boris’s wall
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Perry Mason personified the country that won World War Two and was enjoying well-deserved prosperity
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Conquistadores: A New History of Spanish Discovery and Conquest by Fernando Cervantes reviewed
By Daniel Rey
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Life
American anarchism has always been a literary conceit more than a political (or anti-political) program
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While the diplomats did nothing, mothers negotiated the Lollipop Airlift that would bring their kids home
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Never admit, never bore, and everything will be hunky-dory
By Taki
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Formality at each level of society and in every social venue is an indispensable source and preserver of morale
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Eating out once a week I can cheerfully manage. Twice, I start complaining
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I was put in mind of lounging by video conferencing, which allows conferees to attend to their visible top half while wearing lounge pants below
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Place
Before its downfall, the Aizu domain was famous for its education system and strict samurai code
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Food and Drink
In times of scarcity and anxiety, it seems that we like to have proper bread back on our table again
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It was a sad day when La Petite Auberge passed from the scene a decade ago
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Most wines, like most people, lose suppleness, vivacity and lusciousness after a certain point
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Why is the US taste in meat so blinkered and narrow?
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