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Sunday morning, back in the fourth pew

by Garrison Keillor | Sep 4, 2023 | The Storyteller, zEditor's pick, zLead Article

One good reason to travel around America is to meet American people, all the more so if you’re one of them yourself. I went out West for ten days and rediscovered what I always knew, that our people don’t mind talking about themselves. You call a cab at 5 a.m. in...

To lean, clean or reign supreme

by Joakim Book | Sep 3, 2023 | Golden Oldie, The Guest Essay

Originally published May 2021. In the early 2000s, before the financial crisis, a debate dominated central banking: whether central bankers should try to reign in financial bubbles in what was called ‘lean against the wind’. That is, over and above their macroeconomic...

David Baddiel is wrong – anyone should be able to play Jews

by Adam Solomons | Sep 3, 2023 | Golden Oldie, The Guest Essay

Originally published March 2021. David Baddiel’s polemic Jews Don’t Count has proved surprisingly controversial. He seems to have gone out of his way to rile political opponents – mostly antisemites, and their enablers and apologists. Rightly so. There will never be a...

Martyr in the cathedral

by William Cash | Sep 3, 2023 | Golden Oldie, The Guest Essay

Originally published February 2021. In a year of ‘special advisers’ falling on swords, the tale of Thomas Becket, martyred on 29 December 1170, can read like an overdramatized telling of Dominic Cummings’ resignation – sacrificing himself for his colleague, though...