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The time is ripe for innovation
Natascha Engel reviews How Innovation Works, by Matt Ridley
Is a deal any closer?
There is movement on everything, except the fundamentals
Unvarnished tyranny
This is perhaps the only book I have yet read about Amin which gives anything like an accurate assessment of who he was
Are American universities under foreign control?
Paul du Quenoy reveals the unreported foreign investment in US universities
The left-wing bias of Wikipedia
Is Wikipedia’s neutral point of view truly dead?
A timely warning from history
Are Churchill’s and Orwell’s warnings about to come to pass?
Fishermen’s tails
Through history, Mermaids have been treated as more real than legendary, even by those who have had a reputation to uphold
How Covid paved the Road to Serfdom
Hayek suggested a society which sacrificed liberty for security would gradually submit itself to authoritarian control
Silence of the fans
Nick Cohen says silent sport needs crowds to give it meaning
Christmas doesn’t have to be cancelled
A Covid Christmas could be the right time to introduce new festive traditions
Memoirs of a Microaggressor
Will Collins traces the aristocratic roots of the social justice warriors’ search for purity
A New Civil War? Not Bloody Likely
If the American left has any real hope of prevailing over Trump, it may well depend on the professionalism of uniformed men in arms