The Roman roots of ‘colony’
The Greeks are better thought of as overseas settlers, often driven by land hunger, starvation, commerce or simply the search for a better life.
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Monday
Monday
How to survive the ‘permacrisis’
2022 was a hard year, but also a clarifying one
Can Twitter still be saved?
Elon Musk will try but other meaningful options are starting to emerge
What Hawaii taught me about American homelessness
A system designed to exploit will always exploit too much at its edges
Have yourself a very basic Christmas
Normal is nice. Basic is beautiful
What conservatives lack
What the cultured right needs is what the left has: an avant-garde
Big Pickleball is coming for your tennis court
A casual pastime appealing to limited-mobility seniors develops big ambitions
The outrage fever over Critical Race Theory
It’s a strange and unwitting collusion between left- and right-wing actors
How Politico’s Playbook went from must-read to spam
Spotted: a Spectator journalist realizing it was probably always irrelevant navel-gazing
The Republican march on Rome
Will the Republicans fritter their wins away as Hannibal did after Cannae?
How I went from woke capitalist to victim of the woke mob
Levi’s was among the wokest of the woke. And I was in on it
At war with my pearly whites
It feels good to smile again, in the American way, blinding anyone who looks at me directly
How Formula One took America by storm
One of the world’s most popular sports has begun to get a foothold in the US
My travels in DeSantisland
I decided to spend some time in the Tampa suburb where he grew up
Sunday
The lesson of 2022: energy is our lifeblood
The Ukraine war reminds us we need it in abundance, whether we like it or not
A nation of quitters
Even after the pandemic, many Americans are sitting on the sidelines of the economy
Where in the world is Greta Thunberg?
She was missing recently from the UN. Is she due for a rebrand?
She was the Queen of the West
Elizabeth II was the embodiment of certain Western values close to my heart
The fall of the Birkin bag
The luxury handbag is at odds with the TikTok age
Welcome to the age of nuclear blackmail
In Taiwan and Ukraine, we are at the start of a perilous new era