Out of Nam’s way
In country, Down Under
Paywall
Friday
Wednesday
How democracy dies
Mail-in voting undermines elections
Monday
Mart and marketing
Martin Amis has written another autobiography — sort of
The eyes have it
Renaissance and Baroque Art: Selected Essays by Leo Steinberg reviewed
Letters from the politically homeless
Almost every Democrat voting for Trump has a story about being ostracized, shamed or losing a friend
Friday
Pompeo’s principles
Talking policy, paradigms and turning Trump’s instincts into reality
Wednesday
A leaf from Verdi’s book
Can radicchio take root in the Pacific Northwest?
Tuesday
We’re not going to take it — again
How the Seventies are taking us back to their future
Is Stephen Miller pursuing policy — or power?
‘He’s like Lady Macbeth. It’s someone who is so ravenous to get what they want, and instead they become a victim of their own insanity’
Monday
Reflections of an outgoing President
From the desk of Donald J. Trump
Sunday
We are living in an age of cultural climate change
Without moral principles, freedom will not survive
Our lady of hope
Notre-Dame: The Soul of France by Agnès Poirier reviewed
Pita Shack flashback
The bloody horrors that have waylaid Iraq since the 2003 invasion obliterate thoughts of its glorious past
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
Know better
The Polymath: A Cultural History from Leonardo da Vinci to Susan Sontag by Peter Burke reviewed
Friday
The return of the Blob
It will mean the return of competence in government — and a sense of dynamism too
Eye on the pies: food in the age of ‘cultural appropriation’
Am I, a not-Chinese person, allowed to make sesame buns?
The future of populist conservatism
The anti-liberal opposition will continue to be demotic and anti-theoretic, impatient with and scornful of ideas, in public life especially
Thursday
Liberty and death: Jacob Lawrence’s struggle for freedom
His tale is not a ‘let’s hold hands and sing for liberty’ triumph. It’s a violent, gritty and gruesome affair
Bubbles in paradise
On Churchill’s favorite fizz