FROM THE MAGAZINE

January 2022

High Life

I’ve been back one week and the good old US of A has never seemed more depressing

Is this the future of American culture, already a contradiction in terms, or is it progressivism, as some call the chaos?

By Taki

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Place

Staten my preference

Staten Island offers the spiritual antonym to elitist performances such as the Met Gala and the Oscars that peddle a distortion of American life

By James Jeffrey

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Low Life

The healing power of Champagne

‘Glass of bubbly, Marigold?’ I asked Catriona’s sister at a quarter to nine on the first morning of her visit

By Jeremy Clarke

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Home

Did the culture wars kill the New Year’s Eve party?

How do we celebrate when all the old pleasures have been pathologized?

By Cosmo Landesman

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Home

Mark Twain in Buffalo

Mark Twain would be hopelessly out of favor with both wings of the modern duopoly

By Bill Kauffman

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Home

The exhortative tradition in America

To summon your brethren to raise a City Upon a Hill as a beacon to all mankind is a pretty tall order

By Chilton Williamson, Jr.

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Language

The language of the victimhood war

To own occupies a semantic field which turns out to be a Grimpen Mire

By Dot Wordsworth

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