Happy Fucking Birthday
An exhausted America turns two hundred and fifty by Christopher Hooks
Republican Machines
Can the GOP save the humanities? by Ann Manov
American Ephemera
A primer on a free people’s government by William T. Vollmann
Category Archives: Magazines
THE SPECTATOR WORLD MAGAZINE – JUNE 22, 2026
THE SPECTATOR WORLD: The latest issue features ‘Palantir Derangement Syndrome’ – How one company is blamed for everything.
Trump has betrayed voters on inflation
“I love inflation,” said Donald Trump earlier this month, when asked about the latest increase in the Consumer Prices Index to an annualized 4.2 percent. But the power of the President’s positive thinking cannot overwhelm the enormous threat that rising prices pose to his legacy. The new figure is more than an inconvenience or a technicality. It could bring about a sharp change in the political order. Rising costs will likely prove to be Trump’s undoing and present the Democrats with a free hit for November’s midterms and beyond. There was one reason above all others why Trump returned to the White House in 2024: high inflation during the Biden years. His 2016 slogan, “Make America Great Again,” morphed into “Make America Affordable Again.
How Paula White-Cain guides Trump through evangelical America
“I don’t think there’s anything that’s going to get me into heaven,” Donald Trump told a group of journalists aboard Air Force One in October. “I think I’m not, maybe, heaven-bound.” “My phone started blowing up,” says Paula White-Cain, Trump’s senior advisor to the White House Faith…
The rise of Palantir Derangement Syndrome
A late spring outbreak of righteous indignation is affecting the United Kingdom. It’s yet another variant of Palantir Derangement Syndrome. Virologists tracked this smug neurosis as it jumped across the Atlantic from the American left to British Labour. Symptoms include selective blindness, performative anguish, a hilarious inability to grasp the facts and Tourette’s-level
COUNTRY LIFE MAGAZINE – JUNE 17, 2026 PREVIEW
Everything, everywhere, all at once
Irises have inspired great artists from Vincent van Gogh to Sir Cedric Morris. Michael Prodger examines the flower’s allure
Green with envy
Why not take a leaf out of Tom Parker Bowles’s book and sample the very best salad flavours from around the world?
Pier into the future
Our seaside piers are the great survivors of the Victorian age and many are thriving in the 21st century, reveals Jonathan Lee
Arts & antiques
It is 500 years since artist Hans Holbein arrived on these shores, yet we remain captivated by his portraits, finds Carla Passino
Louise Farina’s favourite painting
The perfumer senses the zest of an Italian spring morning in a still life celebrating citrus fruit
Country-house treasure
John Goodall sees High Church spirit in a handwritten Bible at Treberfydd House in Brecon
History and fantasy
In the second of two articles, John Goodall delves into the fable-meets-fact history of Warwick Castle, Warwickshire
The legacy
Octavia Pollock adds a dash of colour to the illustrious history of Winsor & Newton, supplier to the stars of the art world
The importance of being Ernst
Ernst Vegelin van Claerbergen, head of the Courtauld Gallery, is optimistic about the future of the Arts, as he tells Carla Passino
Winging it
A beauty or a beast? Mark Cocker investigates how the exotic pheasant splits opinion
Luxury
Jonathan Self explores the royal enthusiasm for amethyst and Amie Elizabeth White weaves in some summer essentials
Interiors
An open-plan makeover wows Arabella Youens, plus perfect pitchers with Amelia Thorpe
Simply perfect
A 20-year revival of the Arts-and-Crafts garden at Fonthill House in Wiltshire catches the eye of Christopher Stocks
Travel
Sophia Money-Coutts savours all the fun of Florida on a trip to the party town of Palm Beach
A new sense of purpose
Robin Hereford is calling for a revival in the fortunes of brown furniture — pieces with style and sustainability on their side
A wrinkle in time
A new generation of American collectors is being charmed by exquisite English antique furniture, discovers Patrick Monahan
Cooking up a storm
Michael Billington is blown away by the RSC’s Tempest starring Sir Kenneth Branagh, but High Society delights without dazzling
FOREIGN POLICY MAGAZINE – SUMMER 2026 PREVIEW
FOREIGN POLICY MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘the End of…The U.S.-Israel alliance…Neo liberalism…Trans-Atlanticism…Climate Politics…The United Nations…Asylum…Political parties…Chinese growth…Morality…The future….
Where Neoliberalism Went Wrong
The U.S.-Israel Alliance Isn’t Special Anymore
Is Trans-Atlanticism Really Done? 
How China’s Rise Upended Climate Politics
Why an Obituary for the U.N. Is Premature
THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE – JUNE 22, 2026 PREVIEW
THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE: The latest issue cover features ‘Pierre-Emmanuel Lyet’s “After the Comeback” – New Yorkers unite in hope.
Why Todd Blanche Should Not Be Attorney General
In a Senate that took its constitutional role seriously, Blanche would not win confirmation a second time. By Ruth Marcus
Ken Griffin’s Billions and Billions
The hedge-fund titan is an unabashed big spender—from pièds-a-terre to politics. By Gary Sernovitz
Inside the Ludicrous, Deadly Serious Plan to Take Over Greenland
“We want Greenland,” Trump said. Four men sprang into action to make fantasy a reality. By Ben Taub
When Did White-Collar Work Start to Look So Bleak?
In the nineteen-eighties, an office job promised security and fulfillment. For graduates starting careers today, the prospect is often tinged with dread. By Molly Fischer
AXIOM MAGAZINE – 06.08.26
AXIOM MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘The Quiet Emergency’ – Why the rich world stopped having children, and what comes next.
BARRON’S MAGAZINE ———- JUNE 15, 2026 PREVIEW
BARRON’S MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘Nestle Stock Is Ready To Rally’ – After a long slump, the food giant is finding its sweet spot. An alternative to tech?
Nestlé Finds Its Sweet Spot. How the New CEO Is Turning the Food Giant Around.
Philipp Navratil aims to restart growth in the 160-year-old food giant by focusing on core brands like KitKat, Fancy Feast, and Nespresso.
AI Stocks Underestimate the Technology’s Potential, Says This Tech Investor
Brian Barbetta, co-head of technology investing at Wellington Management, is betting on Nvidia, ASML, and Samsara.
The Great, Big, Boring SpaceX IPO
In the end, the space company’s debut was relatively mundane.
Forget ‘Too Big to Fail.’ How ‘Community’ Became the Most Controversial Word in Banking.
Regulators, lawmakers, and consumer groups are fighting over what it means to be a community bank. The debate has implications for lenders and borrowers everywhere.
NATIONAL REVIEW MAGAZINE – AUGUST 2026 PREVIEW
NATIONAL REVIEW: The latest issue features ‘The Fights on the Right’….
The Fights on the Right
Where ‘freedom conservatives’ and ‘national conservatives’ can, and can’t, find common ground. By Ramesh Ponnuru
Why Americans Fear the AI Future
Tech titans would be foolish to think they can resolve the public’s unease by PR alone. By Christine Rosen
Club Dread: On the Ground in NATO’s Nervous Eastern Flank
Will Trump really try to withdraw the U.S. from the alliance as Putin menaces the region? By Jim Geraghty
SCIENCE MAGAZINE ———– JUNE 11, 2026 PREVIEW
SCIENCE MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘Snap Shut’ – Venus flytrap’s fast cell wall softening allows rapid closure.
Long-term isolation and archaic introgression shape functional genetic variation in Near Oceania
Super-earths and mini-neptunes follow different orbital period–eccentricity relations
Global density and biomass of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal networks
Compound climate events threaten tropical semi-enclosed marine ecosystems
THE ECONOMIST MAGAZINE – JUNE 13, 2026 PREVIEW
The World Cup paradox
How the rules of both entertainment and soft power are being rewritten
Donald Trump’s least bad option in Iran
He must swallow his pride and accept a deal worse than the pre-war status quo
The Federal Reserve must soon give Donald Trump bad news
Kevin Warsh, the unlucky new chairman, has seen his case for lower interest rates disintegrate
For its own sake, China should change its growth model
It is suffering economic costs for its industrial dominance
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