Young people should drink more, no great story starts with salad
Young Americans are drinking less than ever before
Alcohol
Saturday
Friday
Activist-academics push to Make America Teetotal Again
New temperance movement wants alcohol to be treated like tobacco
Friday
Why I am confident the Champagne tariff will not last long
My glass of Pol Roger, expensive though it is now, will not be getting more expensive any time soon
Thursday
What’s behind all the buzz about non-alcoholic beer?
I tend to agree with the sentiment that if we drank alcohol for the taste, we’d be pouring non-alcoholic Maker’s Mark on our cereal
Sunday
Inside Bannon and Burra’s post-CPAC blowout
Mixing with MAGA in the War Room
Thursday
New takes on the Negroni
For the adventurous lovers of the classic Italian gin cocktail
Saturday
A drinker’s guide to flasks
How should you use them and when?
Friday
Can booze break the gridlock in Congress?
After a zillion failed speaker votes, there may be only one hope left
Monday
Does Taylor Swift have a drinking problem?
Her song lyrics suggest she is a wino
Tuesday
In praise of liquor stores
Where else can one encounter such diversity?
Saturday
Is losing God making America miserable?
Consumerism, technology, sex, drugs — these things can’t give us happiness
Tuesday
The need for mead
Whence comes this mead madness?
Monday
Don’t listen to the health fascists — drink up
If alcohol can be part of a healthy lifestyle, it is difficult to demonize
Saturday
Jason Peters writes to entertain his friends and exasperate his enemies
No one who eats food or laughs at jokes should be without his new book
Monday
In defense of drinking in the street
It’s the only good thing to come out of lockdown
Tuesday
Lacking liquor in Northern Virginia
Even closing liquor stores temporarily is dovetailing into a minor if global trend towards prohibition
Monday
Beware the COVID-19 nannies!
Our bossy lifestyle regulators are making the most of this crisis
Friday
Hipsters are getting high on an alcohol-free cocktail
Kin has become popular as swatches of America veer towards sinless living and self-care
Wednesday
Why do Americans and Brits write about alcohol so differently?
American drink writing tends to be self-flagellating: the recovering alcoholic’s remembrance of sins past
Wednesday
Who knew that Arabic has more than 30 words for wine?
You know you’re in good hands when the dedication reads: ‘To the writers, drinkers and freethinkers of the Arab and Islamic worlds, long may they live.’ Abu Nuwas was all three, and a complete hoot. Why he is so little known in Britain should be a mystery. But outward-looking as we are as a nation, we remain peculiarly parochial in our literary tastes outside the Western canon. Born in the late 750s in Ahvaz, Abu Nuwas came to Baghdad during the reign of the Abbasid caliph Harun al Rashid in what was Islam’s golden age. In and out of favour as much as he was in and out of prison,
