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Taking the M14
When I catch the M14, I stand outside the City Park in Tarnowskie Góry — as peaceful and restful a park as you could find, filled with industrious red…
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How Britain Became a Beacon to the World
“I want to set an ambitious course for this country,” said Tony Blair in 1997, “To be nothing less than the model 21st century nation, a beacon to the…
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An Important Man
Political violence often seems to be the last resort of the self-important.
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Office Hours
When I was a teenager, I had a powerful aversion to the idea of working in an office.
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George Orwell and the Horrors of Contemporary Publishing
Reviewing the introduction to a book seems like a very 2025 pursuit.
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Illusions of Salvation
The earliest years of my adolescence were lived to a soundtrack of Christian rock.
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“Duckley”: A Review
Duckley, Tam Sanenhaus’s new biography of the great conservative intellectual William F.
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May 2025

May Diary
Hello, Obligatory shilling.
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Conservatism contra conservatism
To write in chin-stroking terms about the nature of conservatism makes me feel nostalgic.
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How AI Might Liberate Writers
I try not to be a mere reactionary about technological advancements.
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Death of a Legend
The average person dying at 60 would be quite surprising.
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The Rise of the Philosophical Terrorists
I suspect that when an IVF clinic in California was bombed, the assumption of most people would have been that it was Christian fundamentalists.
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