FROM THE MAGAZINE

August 2020

‘It’s hard to oppose, let alone revile, a man who often seems to have no idea what he is saying. Biden elicits a combination of sympathy and apathy, yet he keeps surging ahead in the polls.’

Place

Happy hours

Tuscany or Provence? It’s the former for me every time

By Mark Palmer

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Home

Babies on demand: the nasty side of surrogacy

One agency shows a smiling blonde wearing a T-shirt captioned ‘I grow cute babies’

By Madeleine Kearns

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Diary

Are we living in the golden age of political satire?

Late night hosts and comedians are hitting every slow, low Trump pitch over their plates out of the ballpark

By Christopher Buckley

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How to restore civility in politics

Shrink state power so radically that policy disagreements would be akin to flyweight arguments over the merits of Coke vs Pepsi

By Bill Kauffman

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Faith

Cardinal virtues

The Next Pope: The Leading Cardinal Candidates by Edward Pentin reviewed

By Jane Stannus

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Place

A ticket to Rye

Rye encapsulates a quintessential sort of Englishness: creative yet conservative, cultural yet parochial

By William Cook

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Place

Trekking towards the future

In an economy that favors black economic empowerment, Afrikaners now struggle to find their footing

By Fr Terry Tastard

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Home

Yard envy

Lockdown has cruelly exposed my shortcomings

By Billy McMorris

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Media

The weaponization of whining

A crack in The Narrative? A glimmer of sanity? Maybe. Well, not really

By Roger Kimball

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Media

We’re all thought criminals now

If someone is accused of being racist or transphobic they are rarely given a chance to defend themselves

By Toby Young

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Low Life

What angry young French men want

As I bought the drinks, Didier told me that voluntary euthanasia was in and casino capitalism out

By Jeremy Clarke

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High Life

The mob mentality of the elite

Wagner believed that Nietzsche went bonkers on account of an excess of masturbation. If that’s true, many present types should be in the nuthouse

By Taki

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