Spuds with everything
Potatoes were hyped as the key to a well-nourished populace by the European intelligentsia in the 1700s
Letter from Washington: Conservatism’s entente discordiale
America’s religious right questions the deals it has cut
Letter from Washington: Two funerals and a candidate
Why Biden is winning
Decadence in the time of corona: A conversation with Ross Douthat
The New York Times columnist updates his arguments for a country rocked by pandemic and protest
Letter from Washington: The new silent majority
Americans agree on more than you might think
Letter from Washington: He’s a nihilist, Lebowski
The Dude, Walter Sobchak and the true nature of the Trump presidency
Anti-China syndrome
Both US parties are seeking to be tough on Beijing — but at what cost?
Letter from Washington: The Veepstakes
Introducing a new newsletter from our US Editor
The not-so-great lockdown debate
Lockdowns are about communication not coercion
Dignity during a pandemic: A conversation with Chris Arnade
The gap between front row and back row America feels as wide as ever
Imaginary friends
The idea of a synthetic companion that knows everything about you goes well beyond friendship
Dissolve the hotbeds of wokery
Failing universities should go the way of the monasteries under Henry VIII
Israel and the danger of perpetual war
Friends of Israel should be alarmed about the prospect of fighting on numerous fronts
Labour’s economic policies are incoherent
Labour risks collapsing under the weight of its own inner economic contradictions
The authorities are inept sheriffs of social media
Politicians, the police and the judiciary should stop trying to control a landscape they do not understand
Bonfire of the verities
Plotting a path through the new politics
Join the escalation?
That world war may not erupt imminently is no excuse for being complacent
The WASPI women should blame themselves
No injustice has been done to them
What’s wrong with the Human Rights Act?
It makes judges the arbiter of moral and political as well as legal decisions
Killing democracy to save it?
The annulling of the first round of the Romanian presidential elections should concern us all
The fables of Davos Man
Yuval Noah Harari has written another long book with little wisdom
