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Ludovic Slimak: “We cannot imagine another humanity”
The French paleoanthropologist on how the Neanderthals lived.
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Justin Welby: “It’s better to be woke than asleep”
The Tories decry his interventions; others say he's too conservative. Can the Archbishop of Canterbury unite a fraying Church?
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Lydia Davis’s war on Amazon
The short-story writer on why the tech giant’s profit-seeking is corrupting culture.
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Mark Littlewood: “The climate has shifted against us”
The outgoing head of the Institute of Economic Affairs on whether the UK will ever turn to free-market economics again.
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Max Bennett’s Q&A: “When we follow advice, we adopt the wants of others”
The AI entrepreneur on Jim Carrey, Game of Thrones and his disdain for self-congratulatory LinkedIn posts.
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Susan Hall: “I’m not what you think I am”
The Tory London mayoral candidate on how she will beat Sadiq Khan, the “disgraceful” treatment of the police, and her…
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The tragedy of John Mearsheimer
How the American realist became the world’s most hated thinker.
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Ed Davey: “Voters are not blaming Brexit”
The Lib Dem leader on where his party now stands on Europe and whether he regrets backing austerity.
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Mary Beard: “Learning to think should be destabilising”
The historian on eviscerating Boris Johnson, making students cry, and why classics is “not just for posh people”.
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Nadiya Hussain’s Q&A: “Some of my happiest moments happened during lockdown”
The chef and television presenter on Alicia Keys, the joy of I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! and…
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Beatrice Fihn: “One day, someone will use nuclear weapons”
The Nobel Peace Prize-winning anti-nuclear campaigner on the false promise of deterrence and Oppenheimer.
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The Policy Ask with Michael Marmot: “Listen to advice from older people, but feel free to ignore it”
The professor of health inequalities on telling the truth, knowing the numbers, and staying close to the evidence.
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Rory Stewart still doesn’t know who he is
The politician-turned-podcaster is paying the price for his illusions.
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Mikhaila Peterson’s life at the molten core of the culture wars
At the key moments in the drama of Jordan Peterson, his daughter is usually there.
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The Vanilla Vigilante is suing capitalism, one product at a time
The lawyer Spencer Sheehan has filed hundreds of cases against companies that, he says, misrepresent their products.
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Lorrie Moore’s Q&A: “US gun regulation should be a public health policy”
The author and critic on epidemiology, the joy of wine and coffee, and the soul of Abraham Lincoln.
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Corinne Bailey Rae’s radical return
The industry feared her new album, Black Rainbows, would alienate white audiences. She made it anyway.
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Colson Whitehead’s Q&A: “In the US, we throw up statues of any old dimwit”
The two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author on Mark Rothko, Harrison Ford and tender baby-back ribs.
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Radek Sikorski: “The destruction of Nord Stream was a very good thing”
The former Polish foreign minister on democracy in Poland, European security and what he meant by that Nord Stream tweet.
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