Steven Pinker interview: How does a liberal optimist handle a pandemic?
The Harvard psychologist on whether progress is over, the problem with police abolition, and the Harper’s open letter.
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Personal story: Zidane, football and war
I’m familiar with lockdown – I remember the nights spent hiding with my family in our bathroom, as Israeli airstrikes hit Beirut.
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“We weren’t prepared”: Grooming ring prosecutor Nazir Afzal on grief and state failings
The lawyer behind some of Britain’s most high-profile cases reflects on his most personal brush with government incompetence: the loss…
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China and the attractions of authoritarianism
How the country has been hurt by Covid-19.
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Why does travelling change us?
The ability of a holiday to make you “feel like a different person” is well recognised. We may not be travelling…
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How Hilary Mantel became a publishing phenomenon
On its launch her new novel The Mirror and the Light sold a copy every 2.7 seconds.
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PJ O’Rourke: “I thought Trump was unstable, dangerous. I still do”
The American satirist on Bernie Sanders, Brexit and conservatism.
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Jean Daniel and the the lost age of the intellectual
On the life of the French editor and writer, who has died aged 99.
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