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Heathrow, in London’s western outlands, never lets you forget it’s there. Jets ascend and descend constantly, turning the air into a migraine. People and cargo, all going and coming all the time. Except for the asylum seekers, the refugees, the migrants, who are stuck like lost baggage in commandeered hotels dotted around the airport. There is
No Time to Die reviewed
From our UK edition
In 2010, Jeff Bewkes, then CEO of Time Warner, was asked if he thought Netflix had any chance of taking over Hollywood. His sarcastic answer deserves to go down as one of the all-time dumb predictions. Bewkes (like the dude who wrote the internal Western Union memo that said telephones were a waste of time)
What’s happened to American culture?
He understands extravagant display and is unbothered by practical politics
How the culture war created a tribe of Lee Harvey Oswalds
What are the major artworks of the Trump years?
The debates simplify, dramatize and canalize all the confusions of politics in a colossal world power into verbal boxing matches.
‘All of the things that we need, all of the things that this country needs to get back on track, Trump is for and Biden is against’
Antiracist Baby by Ibram X. Kendi reviewed
Here was somebody who truly acted as if race was a social construct, and the antiracist intellectuals were furious about it
How can we escape the American gerontocracy?
After the waiting, the barbarians arrive
‘I think it makes us lazy thinking about removing a statue, rather than creating a social policy that will materially improve conditions for marginalized groups’
Why escapism is better than utopianism
Journalism is dying of self-obsession
The legendary rapper could run a successful campaign if he commits
History professors compare our present moment to 1917 Russia
Hollywood’s audiences don’t care about diversity in movies as much as people in Hollywood do
It is worth giving abolitionists a hearing. It is also worth asking them questions, getting them to be specific and detailed about their stated goals
