FROM THE MAGAZINE

January 2024

Life

New York is a people pleaser’s hell

The city is a psychological assault course, an emotional minefield, for people like me who are chronically apologetic

By Josie Cox

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London Life

Why BDSM is innately conservative

S&M people might look like perverted children of the Sixties. But for all their weird ways this crowd is the natural ally of conservatives

By Cosmo Landesman

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American Life

Remembering John Gardner

The late novelist’s wound was more gaping than most

By Bill Kauffman

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Prejudices

A history of intellect

The Greeks had a concept of the ‘intellect’ that is the diametric opposite of our own

By Chilton Williamson, Jr.

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