FROM THE MAGAZINE

January 2021

Woke Life

My advice for Kamala, America’s first trans president

We need to make it easier for parents to transition their children. The sooner the better

By Godfrey Elfwick

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Place

Don’t sweat it

At one time there were 900 bathhouses in Rome alone

By James Panero

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Place

Magic mountain

Like most places in Switzerland, Davos is clean, tidy and full of prosperous, contented people

By William Cook

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Low Life

French tag sales are good for my mental health

It is refreshing and enlivening to be among the poor for a change

By Jeremy Clarke

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Ask Jeeves: who first came out with ‘What ho’?

In 1899, the music-hall song ‘What ho! She bumps!’, with words by Harry Castling, was a hit

By Dot Wordsworth

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A novel ending

A great, even a good, novel has somehow the whole world in it, or even worlds

By Chilton Williamson, Jr.

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Canada the beautiful

By Bill Kauffman

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The perks of a long life

There are children alive today whose offspring might possibly see the 23rd century

By Robert Gray

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Vote with your feet

The warped politics of asking your guests to remove their shoes

By Chadwick Moore

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High Life

Trump supporters never stood a chance

Has anyone on the left heard of ‘magnanimity’?

By Taki

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