The Nobel Committee honors an apologist for genocide
Peter Handke has compared Bosnian Serbs laying the siege on Sarajevo with Native Americans laying siege on a camp of white colonizers
Books
Tuesday
Harold Bloom, the Falstaff of lit crit
Bloom was a working-class Jew from the Bronx who, like Saul Bellow, had autodidactified himself to the gills despite being in the university
Monday
Race to the finish
Self-Portrait in Black and White: Unlearning Race by Thomas Chatterton Williams reviewed
Monday
Blondie ambition
Face It by Debbie Harry reviewed
Wednesday
The passion of Bari Weiss
How to Fight Anti-Semitism by Bari Weiss reviewed
Monday
Novel advice for incoming STEM freshmen
Students interested in a career in investing and technology should read more fiction
Saturday
The Spectator USA guide to book curation
Gwyneth Paltrow has a book curator – now you can too!
Sunday
Demining at the foot of Mount Sinjar
Isis had been cleared from this area a month before I arrived, in November 2015. But the men were cautious
Monday
Kevin D. Williamson has a people problem
The Smallest Minority: Independent Thinking in the Age of Mob Politics by Kevin D. Williamson reviewed
Tuesday
When Tom met Groucho
‘He seemed more interested in discussing Animal Crackers and A Night at the Opera’
Thursday
The uneasy legacy of Christopher Hitchens
What will become of the Hitch?
Monday
An American in Darwin’s family
The prelude to Period Piece: A Slightly Foxed books essay
Sunday
A gas-lit world
Hazel Wood on the Darwin family and Gwen Raverat’s ‘Period Piece’: A Slightly Foxed books essay
Saturday
Nineteen Eighty-Four is not a guidebook for the present day
A powerful totalitarian state is no longer needed to coerce human beings
Sunday
Plato, Socrates and Glaucon’s Fate
A new interpretation of the old impulse to tyranny
Monday
A chance encounter with a butterfly-catching Nazi
A Slightly Foxed Editions feature
Monday
Love and War in the Apennines
On Eric Newby’s wartime memoir: A Slightly Foxed books essay
Monday
Diversity means culture, not race
America must teach immigrants how to be Americans
Saturday
The world of William Maxwell
An American original with an almost European touch: A Slightly Foxed books essay
Friday
Twitter is a virus of the mind
If you log off, you lose your influence: An Encounter Ideas essay
