FROM THE MAGAZINE

March 2020

‘Never attribute to malice that which can be attributed to incompetence, they say. Sure enough, there is plenty of the latter at work in national politics. The Democratic side of the presidential race has become a muddle, with too many candidates and no clear message.’

Humor

I fell out with my friend Chrysanthia over abortion

As a transwoman, the chance of me ever being able to have an abortion in my lifetime is slim

By Godfrey Elfwick

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Place

Do cry for her, Argentina

‘Poor people don’t want someone to protect them who is old and dowdy,’ Eva once explained

By Andrew Stuttaford

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High Life

Why do monsters make such good writers?

Hitler put down ‘writer’ as his occupation while starving and unemployed in Vienna

By Taki

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Home

The remarkable Martha Treichler

Black Mountain left a mark on her and her husband Bill

By Bill Kauffman

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Place

Addicted to Addis

We downed jugs of turbo, a popular Ethiopian concoction of white wine, beer and Sprite

By James Jeffrey

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Faith

Ganging up on Israel

To paraphrase Mark Antony in Julius Caesar, the evil that men tweet lives after them, while the good is oft interred with their bones

By Toby Young

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Low Life

The lessons I learned cycling across Rwanda

‘There is no ethnicity here now’, said my escort Eric, moments before I shot headfirst over the handlebars

By Jeremy Clarke

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