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Life
Heinrich Von Kleist argues that if you don’t understand something, one way to solve the problem is to talk
By Thomas W. Hodgkinson
International
The country is one of America’s staunchest allies in the war on terror and the world’s most enslaved nation
By Geoff Hill
Education
Many of the students are masked
By Ben Appel
Internet
Our self-styled betters have neither raised us up toward a more perfect meritocracy nor led us triumphantly into a classless paradise
By Spencer A. Klavan
Middle East
The new Middle East — the tentative alliance between Israel and the most important Arab states — has endured despite six months of Arab audiences being saturated with pictures of Palestinian children in Gaza torn apart by bombs or, lately, emaciated from hunger
By Paul Wood
Politics
The deep, the unavoidable, question is where this train of insanity ends
By Roger Kimball
His extremism is likely to push Biden over the finish line
By Jacob Heilbrunn
Where America goes, Britain follows
By Kate Andrews
There is an epidemic of distaff leadership in higher education
We’re all being victimized by denial and wishful thinking
By Lionel Shriver
Book Review
Josie Cox has persuasively documented the steady but halting progress that women have made in the workplace
By Michael M. Rosen
The Nazis saw the character as a useful tool of propaganda
By Susannah Heschel
Even the dismal artistic results that have ensued with Rebel Moon will do little to check the filmmaker in his tracks
By Alexander Larman
Music Review
Romance is her religion. It’s time she turned to something bigger
By Teresa Mull
It’s depressing this entire country finds it acceptable to part ways on a chipper note of menace
By Chadwick Moore
Until August has a curiously half-baked feel, as if it’s a souvenir of a great man’s legacy rather than a work in itself
By Amelia Butler-Gallie
Daniel de Visé’s canter through Belushi and Aykroyd’s lives and times
By D.J. Taylor
A new book on the army officer could not have been better timed
By Ian Buruma
He established a system of taxonomy we still use two centuries later
By Lynn Barber
Even if it ultimately fails to meet expectations
By Ross Anderson
Food
There’s nothing I like more than a pudding that looks as if you’ve put in huge amounts of effort and skill, when the opposite is true
By Olivia Potts
And Finally
I am quite retro. I like looking at the past. My husband is almost entirely so. He lives in it
By Dot Wordsworth
When a product claims to cure diabetes, cut your belly fat, clear your skin and minimize or prevent cancer, I get a little suspicious
By Zak Asgard
That’s all he played, one single game, and it took him almost a century to get credit for it
By Bill Kauffman
It doesn’t stem from the hockey or amenities so much as the simple human connections we all hunger for
By Will Bardenwerper
Drink
I have never stopped by without trying the wildest combinations in an effort to create a challenge
By Ben Domenech
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