Novel advice for incoming STEM freshmen
Students interested in a career in investing and technology should read more fiction
Books
Monday
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
Saturday
I shall never see the Arctic, but I have Arctic Dreams
The frozen north with Barry Lopez: A Slightly Foxed books essay
Friday
The many lives of Frank Harris
The weightlifting, stomach-pumping man of Transatlantic letters: A Slightly Foxed books essay
Monday
My father threatened to sue me for my first novel
Literary lapses and family law: A Slightly Foxed books excerpt
Friday
The hunt for the Führer
How Hugh Trevor-Roper unraveled the mystery of Hitler’s death: A Slightly Foxed books essay
Friday
Politicized kids’ books are a new low in parenting
Won’t somebody please think of the children!
