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Life
Virtual worlds contain very real gold mines
By Ross Anderson
Internet
Our self-styled betters have not raised us up toward a more perfect meritocracy
By Spencer A. Klavan
If you don’t understand something, one way to solve the problem is to talk
By Thomas W. Hodgkinson
Spectator Editorial
The rest of the world is playing with a different rulebook
By Spectator Editorial
Education
Many of the students are masked
By Ben Appel
Middle East
The new Middle East has endured despite six months of Arab audiences being saturated with propaganda
By Paul Wood
The unavoidable question is where this train of insanity ends
By Roger Kimball
His extremism is likely to push Biden over the finish line
By Jacob Heilbrunn
Where America goes, Britain follows
By Kate Andrews
There is an epidemic of distaff leadership in higher education
Book Review
Far from being closeted in her bedroom, her letters show that she was still traveling in her mid-thirties
By Claire Lowdon
It was innovative in exploring themes not present in the original novel or 1980s show
By Oliver Jia
The film is a vortex of jealousy, betrayal and somewhat repetitive sexual intrigue — but Zendaya isn’t bad
By Dan Hitchens
Josie Cox has persuasively documented the steady but halting progress that women have made in the workplace
By Michael M. Rosen
Theater
The Nazis saw the character as a useful tool of propaganda
By Susannah Heschel
Film
Even the dismal artistic results that have ensued with Rebel Moon will do little to check the filmmaker in his tracks
By Alexander Larman
Romance is her religion. It’s time she turned to something bigger
By Teresa Mull
Why is it acceptable to part ways on a chipper note of menace?
By Chadwick Moore
The posthumously published novel has a half-baked feel
By Amelia Butler-Gallie
Daniel de Visé’s canter through Belushi and Aykroyd’s lives and times
By D.J. Taylor
American Life
That’s all he played, one single game, and it took him almost a century to get credit for it
By Bill Kauffman
Sports
It doesn’t stem from the hockey or amenities so much as the simple human connections we all hunger for
By Will Bardenwerper
Food
There’s nothing I like more than a pudding that looks as if you’ve put in huge amounts of effort and skill, when the opposite is true
By Olivia Potts
Ours is an age that prefers the battle of ideas and opinions rather than pleasure of discovering the mysteries of another person
By Cosmo Landesman
I have never stopped by without trying the wildest combinations in an effort to create a challenge
By Ben Domenech
Place
A lifesize statue of the French emperor stands on the balcony. It takes a few days to get used to him
By Douglas Murray
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