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Place
The pests are lucrative, at least for the hunting business
By Teresa Mull
Spectator Editorial
There’s a significant reason why DC workers don’t want to go downtown: crime
By Spectator Editorial
Life
Real feminists know that empowerment comes from defining the breadth of your own animus
By Ella Dorn
Policy
While Republicans have used the spike in violent crime to point out problems with efforts to neuter police, this is far from a partisan issue
By Tim Rice
‘It’s easier to obsess about invisible particles in drinking water than it is to reexamine the wisdom of popping synthetic hormones every day. Yet many hazards can be avoided simply by choosing to live in ways that have stood the test of time: fresh food over processed; wood, glass and ceramic over plastic; virtue over synthetic hormones; what’s good over what’s merely convenient’
By Jane Stannus
Russia
His regime’s survival has come at the cost of hollowing out Russia’s future, crushing the hope of change
By Owen Matthews
To what extent does our Republic live up to the ideals of the Founders?
By Roger Kimball
Let’s raise wages 25 percent magically; another of Bernie’s bad ideas
By Charles Lipson
Reporters claim abuse is rampant… the data tells a different story
By Amber Duke
He has a history of being banned from working with the city government
By Matthew Foldi
Television
If you want an eye-watering recreation of early seventeenth century Japan, this may be your cup of sake
By James Delingpole
Peter Pomerantsev’s How to Win an Information War is an effort to counter prevailing narratives
By James Ball
When you give a child a book by a celebrity, you are feeding their minds with advertising
By Philip Womack
Art
In his imperfect, weird way, the artist was trying to understand something so deeply beautiful in itself, mere created beings cannot fully grasp it
By William Newton
Theater
‘Things that upset you are fuel to take you through a story’
By Clarissa Sebag-Montefiore
Even post-cancellation, we still live in the pop culture universe the screenwriter created
By Mitchell Jackson
Carson McCullers: A Life is hefty, responsible and absorbing
By Scott Bradfield
After a century of stunt filmmaking, stunt actors remain unsung
By Ross Anderson
Language City explores ‘the most linguistically diverse city’
By Samantha Ellis
The stories are world-hoppers, set in Italy, America, Siberia, and Krakow
By Lee Langley
My spin on Eurostar’s post-Brexit security checks: slow travel
By Amy Rose Everett
And Finally
The history of the word is fearfully complicated and obscure
By Dot Wordsworth
‘In Laikipia, rainfall varies throughout the year and year to year’
By Aidan Hartley
There is in fact no consensus about what a shamrock is
By Melanie McDonagh
They range in style from Scandi chic minimalist to retro-futurist to just plain weird
By Philip Patrick
Drink
You needn’t travel to Ireland to celebrate its saint’s day
By Hannah Moore
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