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DIARY

The crack-up • A year after Trump’s re-election, is MAGA starting to implode?

A Pub Wall in 1974

Bonfire of the New Right vanities

What would Buckley do?

Vibe shaft • Trump is out of touch on the economy

AMERICAN NOTEBOOK

Dropping hints • The strange predictive power of QAnon

SPECTATOR ACADEMY READING LIST

Alien psychology • How scientists misled the world about faith

Condé nasty • The union battle raging at the heart of Anna Wintour’s Vogue empire

Counter-intelligence • Trump is freezing out allies in the Five Eyes network

Paying the price • Ukraine’s European allies can’t afford to fund its war

The enemy within • Far-right factions of Ukraine’s army pose a threat to peace

The lost art of the insult

Taking aim • Veteran Dallas Alexander on the Canadian army’s sensitivity obsession

Shaky foundations • Beautiful interiors can’t guarantee a beautiful marriage

Off on bail • Flakes are the worst

The post-literate society • Audio-driven content is rendering reading and writing obsolete

The Amish test • What the elders can teach us about tech in the 21st century

High stakes • Why marijuana legalization has been a disaster

Maritime

Blaze of glory • The comet 3I/Atlas is heading home

Poetic license • A new book on Jim Harrison charts his life of excess with spellbinding clarity, writes Parker Bauer

Steel magnolia

Battle games

In the red

Southern charm

Unfinished business • The recovery of a Nazi-looted Old Master is re-galvanizing efforts to track down stolen works in South America, writes Jonathan Petropoulos

Anti-art for the masses

Man or machine?

The talented Mr. Scorsese

Phantom revived

Old Boys’ Reunion

DC life

New York life

American life

Prejudices

Recipe for disaster • Anne of Green Gables perfected the kitchen mishap

Salad days

The gin crowd • America is falling in love with the G&T

Hotel Zeffirelli • Villa Treville — the director’s former home — is a slice of paradise in Positano

Corkscrews

Survivor