FROM THE MAGAZINE

August 2021

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The straitened situation of conservatism

The prevailing assumption has been that the natural historical trend is leftward

By Chilton Williamson, Jr.

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Cars

Cruiser control

That test drive was bliss, something like the feeling of your first cigarette after your third drink

By Zack Christenson

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Language

What’s the difference between ‘gifting’ and ‘giving’?

I started at the word gifting like a horse shying at a plastic bag caught in the hedge. Why didn’t I like it?

By Dot Wordsworth

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Home

I’m gypsy and proud

My great-grandfather George’s mother was from the fairground ‘Barkers’

By Melissa Kite

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High Life

The art of Dolly Parton’s bra

The fashion industry is as venal and corrupt as, say, the art world

By Taki

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Place

Walking to Byzantium

The lines that now smudge my map look more like the flight of a woozy bluebottle than the traces of a man with a plan

By Henry Hopwood-Phillips

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Tacitus and the hypocrisy of cancel culture

Vitriolic pamphlets directed against Augustus were initially met with written rebuttals

By Peter Jones

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Low Life

Jason Ricci is my mentor, guru and anointed one

Lately my afternoons are spent with America’s no. 1 blues harmonica player and his tongue-blocking techniques

By Jeremy Clarke

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