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The Weekend Essay

  • Saturday, 15 June, 2024
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    After Baillie Gifford, who is ‘clean’ enough to fund the arts?

    The campaign against the asset manager has left festivals struggling to adapt to a new age of protest

  • Saturday, 8 June, 2024
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    What happened to liberal conservatism?

    The liberal side of the Tory tradition is everywhere in retreat. Much depends on whether it can reassert itself

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    Return to Janesville — life after manufacturing in America’s heartland

    When its GM plant closed in 2008, the small Wisconsin city was hit hard. What does its present state tell us about the US today?

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  • Saturday, 25 May, 2024
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    What went wrong with capitalism

    America has become unhealthily dependent on loose money and big government, argues Ruchir Sharma

  • Saturday, 18 May, 2024
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    Interview with a soldier

    Novelist Chigozie Obioma spent years seeking out veterans of the Biafran war. Then an encounter with an active serviceman helped him understand the conflict that still haunts Nigeria

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    Jürgen Klopp and the leading of Liverpool

    How did the German football manager cast such a spell over the city? There was much more to it than results, writes Lynsey Hanley

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  • Saturday, 4 May, 2024
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    Lessons from history for the modern Middle East

    The ‘Damascus Events’ of 1860 are a warning of how societies can collapse into violence — and also an example of how they can recover

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  • Saturday, 27 April, 2024
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    The week that shook Columbia

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  • Saturday, 20 April, 2024
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    Kant and the case for peace

    Three centuries after his birth, the Prussian philosopher’s arguments for a rational, clear-eyed pacifism are more relevant than ever

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  • Saturday, 13 April, 2024
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    The untold human stories of China’s economic boom

    There’s a personal dimension to the nation’s rapid transformation that is crucial to our understanding of it — yet mostly hidden from view

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  • Saturday, 6 April, 2024
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    AI keeps going wrong. What if it can’t be fixed?

    Pessimists warn it could wipe out humanity. Optimists hail a medical revolution. Henry Mance meets the sceptics who argue that the technology is simply flawed

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  • Saturday, 30 March, 2024
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    What’s the point of private members’ clubs?

    Restrictive membership policies, elitism, overexpansion — London clubland is under fire. Joy Lo Dico explains why people are still queueing to get in

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  • Saturday, 23 March, 2024
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    The promise and perils of the egg-freezing revolution

    It’s fraught with difficulties yet many people are seeking to free themselves from the limits of their biological clock. India Ross recounts a personal journey

  • Saturday, 16 March, 2024
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    What crypto (still) gets wrong

    As Sam Bankman-Fried awaits sentencing this month for fraud, digital assets are booming again. Yet the problems that exposed his empire in 2022 are as relevant today as they were then

  • Saturday, 9 March, 2024
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    The fight for Germany’s ‘memory culture’

    Taking responsibility for the Holocaust is at the core of national identity. But this collective commitment faces challenges from both left and right

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  • Saturday, 2 March, 2024
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    Hauser & Wirth: the Swiss gallery that went global

    The family-owned business has risen swiftly, mixing exclusivity with an expansive vision of the good life. John Gapper goes in search of its secrets

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  • Saturday, 24 February, 2024
    Life & Arts
    Can a friendship app cure loneliness?

    As health systems raise the alarm over social isolation, a wave of start-ups is holding out the promise of authentic real-world connection

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  • Saturday, 17 February, 2024
    Life & Arts
    ‘The war has become the background of life’ — Andrey Kurkov on Ukraine two years on

    As the second anniversary of the full-scale Russian invasion approaches, the acclaimed novelist reflects on his country’s efforts to keep on ‘keeping on’

  • Saturday, 10 February, 2024
    Music
    Live music and the rise of the ‘enormodome’

    With hologram second acts, high-tech sound and light shows and the mushrooming of mega arenas, pop performance is entering a whole new era. But does it still count as live?

  • Saturday, 3 February, 2024
    Life & Arts
    What the world gets wrong about ‘civilisation’

    Politicians everywhere are making appeals to ancient history — but their thinking is based on a myth

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  • Saturday, 27 January, 2024
    Life & Arts
    Surrealism at 100: does it still have the power to disrupt?

    A century on from André Breton’s founding manifesto, Surrealism is flourishing again

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  • Wednesday, 17 January, 2024
    Life & Arts
    What the west forgot about democracy

    A handful of wealthy countries have grown used to giving lectures to the rest — now they need to start taking lessons as well

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  • Saturday, 13 January, 2024
    Life & Arts
    The statue that moved — and the cousin I never knew

    Clair Wills entered adulthood at a time when the limits placed on Irish women seemed in steady retreat. Then a family discovery revealed a messier reality

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  • Friday, 5 January, 2024
    Taiwan
    Becoming Taiwan: in China’s shadow, an island asserts its identity

    As elections loom, Taiwanese of all generations are forging a new vision of their past — and future

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  • Friday, 29 December, 2023
    Life & Arts
    Effective altruism was the favoured creed of Sam Bankman-Fried. Can it survive his fall?

    From Oxford university to Silicon Valley, the ‘do good’ philosophy has enjoyed an improbable rise — but faces an uncertain future

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