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It’s always struck me as odd that even history’s most odious mass-murdering dictators now and…
Via Ross Douthat: Leave it to the Derb to go, uh, sort of overboard and…
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The Washington Post is correct to say that "Ms. Pelosi's attempt to establish a shadow…
On Chesil Beach, Ian McEwan's new short book about one couple's wedding night, is getting…
Reading about the EU's proposed "non-emotive lexicon for discussing radicalisation"—that is, "list of weasel words…
Speaking of crime fiction, it seems that it's best when it doesn't imitate crime fact.…