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‘In 2010, the smart people were either thrilled or alarmed by the prospect of an “emerging Democratic majority”, created by high immigration, de-industrialization and college education. Ten years on, influential magazines are still warning Republicans to play nice with a newly diverse electorate or go the way of the Whigs.’
Novel inspirations: H.L. Mencken, the bad boy of Baltimore
Ideas and theories were not Mencken’s meat and drink. Real people and social comedy were
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New York has really gone to pot when the tallest skyscrapers lie empty
Bad taste and bad manners are ubiquitous in New York, so why should good taste suddenly prevail in putting up buildings?
By Taki
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Stayin’ alive in ’75
Meryl Meisler’s photographs captured the family life and nightlife of Seventies New York
By James Panero
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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
By Will Lloyd
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Bad feeling: why we need to defend freedom of reaction
People react differently to different things, and hooray for that
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Jung love
Savage Messiah: How Dr Jordan Peterson Is Saving Western Civilization by Jim Proser reviewed
By Micah Mattix
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The joy of rummaging through Gladstone’s annotated books
A visit to the Gladstone Library has the welcome effect of removing you from the worries and concerns of the world
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Is he talking to us?
De Niro should live up to his movie characters and stop his knee-jerk dissing of Donald Trump
By John Waters
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All modern art is quite useless
The contemporary artist doesn’t expect to have to suffer for what he calls his art. Away with the garret!
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George Eliot, radical but conservative
What other heroine in a 19th-century novel strangles her sister’s canary as a girl?
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Kingdoms of the wicked
How to Be a Dictator: The Cult of Personality in the Twentieth Century by Frank Dikötter reviewed
By Conrad Black
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A hero for the Snowflake age
Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan is now a politically correct pantywaist
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The audacity of verse
The Music of Time: Poetry in the Twentieth Century by John Burnside reviewed
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