Trump’s hydroxychloroquine kick is a billionaire quirk
If you don’t understand, it’s because you’re not rich enough
Will Lloyd
Wednesday
Monday
Is it time to bring back Steve Bannon?
Trump does love a comeback
Friday
The similarity between Charles Dickens and Armando Iannucci
The director’s new work, The Personal History of David Copperfield, is certainly brave
Wednesday
After the virus, the tedium
Bureaucracy will win the war on COVID-19
Monday
Why men don’t read books anymore
Lockdown has been more illustrative of the gender gap in reading than any event I can remember
Monday
Is Bernie Sanders the Barry Goldwater of the left?
Only if his supporters trade Marx for Machiavelli
Tuesday
Perplexed by the Fauci fetish? You shouldn’t be
Behind the Fauci thirst
Sunday
Privacy or death — the final triumph of Big Tech
Technology can be used to tell us where people are, where they’ve been and whether they have the disease
Friday
How to write the Great Coronavirus Screenplay
‘JESSICA is sitting on her Peloton bike. It’s April 2020. Rain slides down the windowpane. She hasn’t left her apartment — not even to go to Whole Foods — for almost a month’
Friday
Please, please let COVID-19 kill the culture wars
Is it so much to ask?
Saturday
Joe Biden, restoration man
Biden wants to turn Trump into a bizarre interregnum between the prelapsarian Obama years and the senile shelter of the Uncle Joe years
Friday
Wells farrago: gaslighting the Invisible Man
Priapic shower-stalking and domestic haunting were never Wells’s style – not on the page, anyway
Sunday
Joe Biden should do town halls forever
Look, fat!
Thursday
A night with Bernie Sanders’s brother
From our UK edition
Larry Sanders, Bernie’s literal bro, moved to England in the late 1960s and settled in picture postcard Oxford. I was told that Bernie visited Larry there some time ago and was taken to historic Blenheim Palace. Bernie walked around the galleries, he viewed the state apartments, he breezed around Hawksmoor’s library and strolled through Vanbrugh’s
Wednesday
Style on steroids: the power of Jerry Bruckheimer
Bruckheimer may think that the Oedipus Complex is a Greek shopping mall, but the set-ups of Bad Boys and Top Gun are classical
Monday
The mythic rise of the celebrity dissident
The public dissent of some stars is not really the sign of a backlash against bad ideas
Wednesday
Boris’s Iran approach delicately balances European and American interests
From our UK edition
The Iran nuclear deal has been as lifeless as the surface of the moon ever since Donald Trump pulled out of it in May 2018. Iran’s behaviour ever since — the drone strike on Saudi oil production facilities, the seizure of a British-owned oil tanker, the launch of a new generation of centrifuges to enrich
Monday
The Middle East mess has nothing to do with Donald Trump
On every count, other than creating permanent war, the Bush Doctrine failed
Monday
Dave Rubin is here to solve ‘95 percent’ of the internet’s problems
‘I’m not trying to create an exclusive safe space for my content because I’m afraid of what the world thinks’
Wednesday
Why are politicians so obsessed with authenticity?
Another squad marches hopelessly into the enfilade of the inauthenticity firing line
