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The Analyst

One big thing the legacy media gets wrong: Analysis is not “opinion”

by Noah Smith | Apr 7, 2025

Every year, I write one navel-gazing post about what I do for a living. Past instalments include “Noah Smith’s writing advice”, “How to write a successful Substack”, “How to be an opinion writer”, and “The biggest advantage of op-ed writers”. I expect that the next post will be about how to...

The Historian

1588: The defeat of the Spanish Armada

by David L. Smith | Sep 16, 2024

Few events have contributed more powerfully to England’s sense of identity as a sovereign Protestantnation than the defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588. But for that, England...

Political Insider

To fight wokeness, vote Harris

by Jeff Maurer | Sep 6, 2024

The left's worst ideas flourish under Trump Today’s post is from Jeff Maurer. Jeff was Senior Writer for Last Week Tonight with John Oliver and currently writes the political...

The Storyteller

It is never too late to learn a lesson

by Garrison Keillor | Aug 19, 2024

A dear friend once said to me out of the blue, “Today it will have been forty years since the last time I vomited,” and I said to her, “How do you celebrate an anniversary like...

The Storyteller

Why Do Olympic Winners Bite Their Gold Medals?

by Dominic Frisby | Aug 5, 2024

An athlete pretending to bite her medal, but, really, not wanting to damage her perfect teeth by the looks of things.

The Storyteller

My take on the question, so you won’t have to wait

by Garrison Keillor | Jul 29, 2024

The debate was a joke, a cruel joke. Trump was the drunk in the corner saloon, sailing on vodka martinis, and Biden was a serious man attempting to frame an argument in response...

Investor's Notebook

Letter from Paris: Les JO 2024 #2
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by Andy Watson | Jul 22, 2024

On France’s National Day, after an extensive tour of France, the energy of the Olympic Flame finally touched the lives of hundreds of thousands of Parisians.

Investor's Notebook

Roger Federer’s psychological game made him Wimbledon’s best male player – here’s the secret to his winning mindset

by Daniel Walker | Jul 15, 2024

Last month, eight-time Wimbledon champion Roger Federer gave a commencement address to graduating students at Dartmouth University. During this speech, he used “tennis...

Investor's Notebook

The BBC must innovate or die!

by John Ryley | Jul 8, 2024

A review into how the BBC should be funded has been launched by Culture Secretary Lucy Frazer, as new action is taken to reduce the impact on licence fee payers in these hard up...

The Storyteller

I rise to testify in my own defence

by Garrison Keillor | Jul 1, 2024

I spent 12 hours in a New York ER last Saturday and upon discharge was given ten pages of test results and now I have more information about myself than I know what to do with. I...