Jon Ronson
The sadness of Sceptical Man
Emotion need not entail irrationality, and fence-sitting need not involve wisdom
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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
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
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.
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
Bonfire of the fallacies
Two opposing ideas about hard power and foreign policy — legalism and nihilism — are being exposed by the Trump
administration
The sacrifice that changed Naipaul
The humiliation of his father, forced to slaughter a goat to atone for
angering Hindus, made the writer wary of insulting religion
Louis Through
The left-leaning media has lost its moral and institutional authority
Soft competition
There are participation prizes to everyone at the Venice Biennale
Beauty from the ruins of war
Painting gave artists and their viewers a temporary way out of the grim wartime reality
Unionists should unite
It’s time to build alliances to ensure that unionists are not let down again
Hey, leftists, leave independent schools alone
The campaign against independent schools is irrational, short-sighted and destructive
Grin and bear it
Carelessness and frivolity sabotage any attempt at a serious discussion
These violent delights
Pagliacci made the murder the true apex of the show
What Louis Theroux ignores
Pea-brained influencers make for an easier target than Islamic misogyny
Why Keynes was wrong
He misinterpreted fundamental economic principles