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After a Year of ‘Rampant’ Cheating, Elite Bridge Tries to Clean Up
As the pandemic forced most players online, the problem of cheating consumed the game’s highest levels. Top players say a tight-lipped culture is finally changing.As…
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In “The Deep Places,” Ross Douthat chronicles the illness that continued to plague him no matter what he threw at it.In “The Deep Places,” Ross…
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Martin Indyk’s “Master of the Game” offers a detailed account of Kissinger’s diplomacy at the time of the 1973 war.Martin Indyk’s “Master of the Game”…
View More Henry Kissinger and the Puzzle of the Middle EastJohn McWhorter Argues That Antiracism Has Become a Religion of the Left
McWhorter’s “Woke Racism” is a call for Americans to rethink the debates over racism and white supremacy.McWhorter’s “Woke Racism” is a call for Americans to…
View More John McWhorter Argues That Antiracism Has Become a Religion of the LeftThink You Know the 1960s? ‘The Shattering’ Asks You to Think Again.
The historian Kevin Boyle weaves stories of war, sex and civil rights into a narrative that argues for a different view of a momentous decade…
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“Churchill’s Shadow,” by Geoffrey Wheatcroft, may be the best single-volume indictment of Churchill yet written.“Churchill’s Shadow,” by Geoffrey Wheatcroft, may be the best single-volume indictment…
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Consisting of just 15 poems, “Winter Recipes From the Collective” extends the Nobel laureate’s interest in silence and the void, Elisa Gabbert writes in her…
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Piketty’s “Time for Socialism” is a collection of recent pieces criticizing the maldistribution of wealth in the West and tracing his own political evolution.Piketty’s “Time…
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In “The Memoirs of Stockholm Sven,” by Nathaniel Ian Miller, a young man swaps the daily grind for the unpeopled expanses of the Far North.In…
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