The confusion of the Confucians
Kissinger is right about Trump, of course
Dominic Green
Thursday
Sunday
Is Roger really what Ailes the American republic?
Divide and Conquer: The Story of Roger Ailes reviewed
Thursday
The height of hypocrisy: why on earth is Bohemian Rhapsody up for a Golden Globe?
It’s a mediocre vehicle that promotes Queen’s back catalog and some contemporary virtues
Monday
Court with its pants down
The Favourite reviewed
Saturday
George H.W. Bush was the representative president
The death of the last president to have served in World War Two represents the passing of an age
Monday
Bernardo Bertolucci was more pervert than genius
His films were boring, too
Thursday
’Twas the night after Thanksgiving
What will the White House’s Thanksgiving look like in 10 years’ time?
The Green Room podcast: Nicolas Roeg and Performance
The director Nicolas Roeg, who died on Friday aged 90, was a master of daring, dreamlike cinema — so daring and dreamlike, in fact, that the studios often didn’t know what to do with his films. Walkabout (1971) lost money on its release, but slowly became a cult classic. Bad Timing (1980) so alarmed the … Read more
Wednesday
Airbnb’s boycott and Facebook’s child bride: the moral vacuum of the internet
Never attribute to malice or stupidity that which can be adequately explained by greed
Sunday
Friday
Why is Tommy Robinson banned from America?
His kind of populism is what you get when government and media collude to silence the lawfully expressed opinions of ordinary people
Monday
Donald Trump, Democratic president?
Trump should go back to his roots with Chuck and Nancy
Sunday
The Marie Colvin biopic is a study in compulsion
A Private War reviewed
Tuesday
Only an idiot would predict tonight’s midterm results. So let me oblige
Trump is so divisive that the networks couldn’t agree on who he was dividing
Sunday
Axios on HBO: dumb TV for people who think they’re smart
It feels like a media Democrat’s idea of a shot for the sweet spot and the middle ground
A bitter kind of greatness
The Other Side of the Wind reviewed
Monday
Another Robert Redford obituary for the heroic white misfit
The Old Man and the Gun reviewed
Wednesday
The caravan of the saints
This is what you get when you permit the impoverishment of an entire continent, and then exploit the undocumented labour of those able to escape
Tuesday
American universities need to chop the hand that feeds them tyrants’ cash
How can politically correct universities take money from Mohammed bin Salman?
Monday
The origin story of the American moral vacuum
Bad Times at the El Royale reviewed
