Cigarettes are marvelous
All of us, in the end, will return to dust
Will Lloyd
Sunday
Thursday
Misreading the Twitter presidency
The New York Times analysis of @realdonaldtrump is the journalistic equivalent of the dozens of people every year who claim to see Jesus’s face in their food
Monday
Seven candidates who could save the Democrats in 2020
Is there no one else?
Wednesday
Does anyone have a job for Chelsea Clinton?
Chelsea is described in a noodly string of non-words as an ‘author, global health advocate, public speaker and philanthropist’
Tuesday
Monday
The age of LOLitics
Social media is turning democracy into a joke
Monday
Joe Biden versus the internet
Can a candidate still compete electorally without significant online backing?
Monday
Disney and the imagination recession
Today Hollywood’s undoubted creative power is spent updating and reimagining stories that are decades old
Monday
The NYT and the triumph of narrative journalism
Reactions to Trump have unveiled truths far greater than any lies he has told
Tuesday
Rise of the comrade babies
No one owns the Democratic Socialists of America as hard as they own themselves
Tuesday
Hollywood parrots the Chinese Communist party line
For almost a decade, American cinema has rolled over and had its fluffy belly tickled by grim-faced CCP censors
Thursday
The uneasy legacy of Christopher Hitchens
What will become of the Hitch?
Friday
Apollo 11 was nowhere near woke enough
The usual suspects are preparing their difficult questions about the Moon landing
Tuesday
Tom Steyer and the pedestrian mindset of billionaires
Billionaires have, of course, run for president before, but the recent mania is a direct result of Trump’s win
Saturday
Nineteen Eighty-Four is not a guidebook for the present day
A powerful totalitarian state is no longer needed to coerce human beings
Tuesday
Are viewers falling out of love with the Trump presidency?
Watching the Donald used to be unmissable television. What happened?
Wednesday
When did Congressional testimony become performance art?
When you address a committee, you are competing for attention and influence on the internet
Tuesday
On the barricades of London’s anti-Trump ‘carnival of resistance’
From our UK edition
Even on a day like this, a wet Tuesday in June, you would expect the British left to find a few thousand protesters to issue screaming denunciations of Donald Trump. So it was, and here they were: Quaker socialists and union activists, avengers for Palestine and gay priders, euro-federalists, vegans, concerned mothers, NHS idolaters and
Wednesday
The blistering bathos of Game of Thrones
Game of Thrones’s climax presents a problem for America’s prestige publications
Wednesday
If Trump goes to war with Iran, he will lose in 2020
He would become yet another politician who believes American greatness lies in policing the world
