Issue: July 2021
The calamitous course of history
Reading Doom might not save us, but it leaves us with a better appreciation of the complex politics of catastrophe
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American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
International Women’s Day is useless for women
IWD has become a celebration of evasion and irrationality
Schrödinger’s schism
The Anglican Communion, for all of its internal disagreements, has yet to fall apart
Why we should explore space
Space exploration lifts the human spirit: rather than asking “Why?”, we should ask “Why not?”
Supernatural delight
Religion cannot be reduced to dry abstractions
Too starstruck to see Marilyn’s faults
Only Some Like It Hot endures, though not because of anything Monroe does in it
No, the King has not converted
A bizarre conspiracy theory
that Charles III is a Muslim is
easily shown to be false
Paris cinema
There are no songs or movies about Paris in the winter
Why 1776 matters to modern Britain
The American founding is a case study in peaceful regime change
Why the left has nowhere left to go
Chris Bayliss and Tom Jones discuss how progressivism got left behind
The Symphony’s Indian summer
Imagine hearing a symphony for the first time
Two cafes, both alike …
Our correspondent investigates the north London front of the Israel-Palestine conflict