Acronyms
Acronyms
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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
The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
The costs of telling the truth too late
The girl guiding decision is causing pain — so why do activists seek to prolong it?
Slim down the university system to save it
It has become too bloated and too expensive
Legal curiosities
The pursuit of justice in small or atypical jurisdictions has sometimes led to some unusual legal quandaries
Canis lupus labor
Europe is a wolf coming up the path to devour the Labour Party
Devolution has been a disaster
Wales, and the United Kingdom at large, are weaker for the devolution project
Too starstruck to see Marilyn’s faults
Only Some Like It Hot endures, though not because of anything Monroe does in it
We need a loud revival
The dream of a “quiet revival” always misunderstood the problem faced by British Christians
The fog of facts
As elections approach, voters are forced to navigate a swamp of spin, distortion, and inaccessible data.
The artist formerly known as Nero
The life and death of Rome’s last Julio-Claudian emperor revealed every Roman fear about the dangers of one-man rule
How the cranks won
Britain’s ruling ideology is founded less on what elites believe than on who they fear
A country at war with itself
Washington politics can
best be understood through the history
of bitter factional in-fi ghting within both
the Democratic and Republican parties