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The Economist Magazine – December 14, 2024 Preview
How the new Syria might succeed or fail
The end of the house of Assad. Much will go wrong. But for now, celebrate a tyrant’s fall
What Spain can teach the rest of Europe
Our number-crunching suggests it was the best-performing rich economy in 2024
America’s searing market rally brings new risks
Financial innovation is just as much to blame as the technological sort
Multilateral institutions are turning away from the poorest countries
Even bail-outs are getting expensive
Politics: The Guardian Weekly-December 13, 2024
The Guardian Weekly (December 11, 2024): The new issue features The fall of Syria’s brutal dictatorship. Plus The best books of 2024.
Not even the most optimistic of rebels could have predicted the rapid collapse, last weekend, of the Assad dynasty that ruled Syria with an iron fist for more than 50 years. Yet while there was relief and joy both inside Syria and among the nation’s vast displaced diaspora, it was also accompanied by apprehension over what might come next.
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Spotlight | Russia and Ukraine wait warily for Trump transition
The idea of the US president-election as a saviour for Ukraine, as unlikely as it may seem, holds an appeal for an exhausted nation without a clear path to victory. Shaun Walker and Pjotr Sauer report
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Environment | The jailed anti-whaler defiant in face of extradition threat
Capt Paul Watson talks to Daniel Boffey about his arrest on behalf of the Japanese government, his ‘interesting’ Greenland prison, and separation from his children
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Feature | The growing threat of firearms that can be made at home
One far-right cell wanted to use 3D-printed guns to cause ‘maximum confusion and fear’ on the streets of Finland. Could the police intercept them in time? By Samira Shackle
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Opinion | Farage is lying in wait. Britain can’t afford for Starmer to fail
It is not enough for the Labour leader’s ‘milestones’ to be achieved. Voters must feel the improvement in their daily lives, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland
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Culture | The best books of 2024
From a radical retelling of Huckleberry Finn to Al Pacino’s autobiography, our critics round up their favourite reads of the year
Research Preview: Nature Magazine – Dec. 12, 2024
Do you drink coffee? Ask your gut
Largest study of links between consumption of the beverage and gut diversity finds coffee-loving bacteria.
Has Venus ever had an ocean? Its volcanoes hint at an answer
Chemistry of the planet’s atmosphere suggests that its interior has never held water.
Ancient stacks of dishes tell tale of society’s dissolution
Artefacts from a Mesopotamian archaeological site suggest that people in the region founded and later rejected an early form of the organized state.
Arts/Books: Times Literary Supplement – Dec. 13, 2024
Times Literary Supplement (December 11, 2024): The latest issue features ‘The tragic Queen of France’ – The legend of Marie Antoinette; William Dalrymple’s Indian empire; Mary Beard – A night at the museum; The coffee house scientist; What Kindle readers want…
Los Angeles Review Of Books – Winter 2024-2025
Conversation
A Precise Excavation of the Soul: A Conversation with Hilton Als by Melissa Seley
Nonfiction
Mean Mommies: Care in Contemporary Queer Literature by Jenny Fran Davis
Our Ambassadors to the Future: Relics of—and for—ourselves by Christina Wood
The Only Girl in the World: On Madonna and ‘Desperately Seeking Susan’ by Brontez Purnell
Homespun Tiara: A Profile of Model and Activist Geena Rocero by Enzo Escober
Syria’s Forgotten Island of Opposition: A report from the al-Tanf military compound by Charlie Clewis
Bedrock: On gravesites literal and not by Charley Burlock
American Blondes: Are we having more fun yet? by Arielle Gordon
Fiction
Bright by Grace Byron
Finishing Moves by Evan McGarvey
Witches of Fresno and Pigfoot by Venita Blackburn
The Good Life by Brady Brickner-Wood
The Aforementioned Journal by David Hollander
Poetry
Srdičko Bolí by Claressinka Anderson
Has Your Spirit Dried Up? by emet ezell
I Haven’t Heard My Brother’s Voice in Ten Years by Douglas Manuel
Montauk by Connie Voisine
Straining for the Noise by Jenny Xie
Art
Lida Abdul
Preview: Philosophy Now Magazine January 2025
Return to God?
by Rick Lewis
NEWS
News: December 2024 / January 2025
Lost Hegel lecture notes now being digitized • Professor Ted Honderich dead at 91 — News reports by Anja Steinbauer
SOCIAL MEDIA
Plato’s Cave & Social Media
Seán Radcliffe asks, has Plato’s Allegory of the Cave been warning us of social media for 2,400 years?
Trolls, Skeptics & Philosophers
Rosemary Twomey questions our online epistemology.
THE RETURN OF GOD?
Exploring Atheism
Amrit Pathak gives us a run-down of the foundations of modern atheism.
A Critique of Pure Atheism
Andrew Likoudis questions the basis of some popular atheist arguments.
Evil & An Omnipotent, Benevolent God
Zdeněk Petráček looks at the biggest problem facing monotheism.
A God of Limited Power
Philip Goff grasps hold of the problem of evil and comes up with a novel solution.
The Best Possible World, But Not For Us
Mohsen Moghri gives a Godless but principled response to the problem of evil.
Medieval Islam & the Nature of God
Musa Mumtaz meditates on two maverick medieval Muslim metaphysicians.
ARTICLES
Metaphors & Creativity
Ignacio Gonzalez-Martinez has a flash of inspiration about the role metaphors play in creative thought.
Seeing & Knowing
Shashwat Mishra explores the limits of perception via the Molyneux problem.
Perpetuating the Santa Deception
Jimmy Alfonso Licon wonders whether pretending there’s a Santa is naughty or nice.
Volney (1757-1820)
John P. Irish travels the path of a revolutionary mind.
How Can We Make A Computer Conscious?
Each answer below receives a random book. Apologies to the entrants not included.
INTERVIEWS
Robert Stern
Robert Stern talks with AmirAli Maleki about philosophy in general, and Kant and Hegel in particular.
LETTERS
Letters
Thoughts on Thoughts on Thoughts • Get Smarter • Decoding A Decoding • A Swift Rebuttal • Basic Arithmetic • A Message on Meaning
COLUMNS
Xenophanes (c.570-c.478 BCE)
by Terence Green
Philosophers on Dance
by Matt Qvortrup
“I refute it thus”
Raymond Tallis kicks immaterialism into touch.
Seneca On Anger
Massimo Pigliucci tells us how to avoid becoming irate.
REVIEWS
Too Late To Awaken by Slavoj Žižek
T.W.J Moxham reads Slavoj Žižek’s little book of Hegelian horrors.
Barriers to Entailment by Gillian Russell
Christopher John Searle recommends a study of which moves are allowed in logical arguments.
It’s A Wonderful Life
Becky Lee Meadows considers questions of guilt, innocence, and despair in this classic Christmas movie.
Country Life Magazine – December 18, 2024 Preview
Country Life Magazine (December 10, 2024): The latest issue features ‘The Christmas Double Issue’…
A story of homeliness
The Revd Dr Colin Heber-Percy considers the Christmas story told in familiar rituals
Earth stood hard as iron
Frost casts a garden’s structure into sharp relief. Tiffany Daneff enters a sparkling world
The Very Revd Jo Kelly-Moore’s favourite painting
The Dean of St Albans chooses a canvas full of uplifting light for dark times
The legacy
Kate Green pays tribute to Dame Ninette de Valois, the ‘godmother of ballet’
Where Britain’s first saint lies
In the first of two articles, John Goodall traces the saintly history of the ancient abbey church of St Albans, Hertfordshire
Love to hear the robin go tweet, tweet, tweet
The feisty robin is the undisputed avian king of Christmas. Mark Cocker wonders why
It’s a most wonderful time of the year
From weaving wreaths to corralling choristers, the work is ramping up for country people, who talk to Kate Green and Paula Lester
Baby, it’s gold outside
Catriona Gray meets the artists capturing Nature’s beauty in gold
Silence is golden
Stop and listen to Nature’s voice, urges John Lewis-Stempel
Each year you bring to us delight
Hanging treasured decorations is all part of the magic. Matthew Dennison opens the bauble box
Look out! Look out! Jack Frost is about
Deborah Nicholls-Lee dares to unveil the mysterious figure
The Editor’s Christmas quiz
Take on our quizmaster — and, more importantly, your family and friends
Anyone for indoor cricket?
Melanie Cable-Alexander buckles up for riotous country-house-corridor games
No Risk, no reward
Harry Pearson takes over the world with the classic board game
Make ’em laugh
Jonathan Self chortles at British comedy
The Christmas Story: ‘Bring me flesh and bring me wine’
The spirit of Christmas works its magic on a curmudgeonly baronet in Kate Green’s tale
Interiors
Natural scents win for Arabella Youens
While shepherds watched their flocks
The sheep and its patient guardians have long delighted artists, finds Michael Prodger
Luxury
Knitting, diamonds and Giles Coren’s treats
It takes a village
Is the perfect rural habitation real, wonders John Lewis-Stempel
Don’t mince your words
Modern mince pies are but pale shadows of the past, believes Neil Buttery
You’re one hot roast potato
Who can resist a roastie? Not Emma Hughes, nor anyone else in their right mind
Kitchen garden cook
Melanie Johnson builds a gingerbread house
That’ll do, pig
Glazed and succulent, the Christmas ham is the king of the feast for Tom Parker Bowles
Lay, lady, lay
Give wine time to age, urges Harry Eyres
Crown Him with many crowns
John Lewis-Stempel gathers in the holly, once divine diadem, now a cow’s Christmas feast
The straw that broke the camel’s back
Labour’s family-farm tax will mean ruin for a beleaguered sector, says Minette Batters
‘Growing old is mandatory, but growing up is optional’
Sam Leith opens the well-worn covers of the childhood books we will always cherish
Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee
From frogs to rat armies, the natural world has inspired countless ballets. Laura Parker straps on her pointe shoes for the bunny hop
Highlights, delights and lowlights
Michael Billington awards his accolades to the stars — and the scourges — of the stage
Spectres of the feast
Operas with food and wine may be rousing, but there are perils, warns Henrietta Bredin
Unputdownable: the page turners of 2024
Country Life reviewers select their top books
Literarature: The Paris Review – Winter 2024-2025
Fredric Jameson on the Art of Criticism: “Ideological critique has to end up being a critique of the self. You can’t recognize an ideology unless, in some sense, you see it in yourself.”
Hanif Kureishi on the Art of Fiction: “When I was in hospital in Rome, having the experience of being a paralyzed man nearly dead, my only excitement was in the thought that I could write some of this shit down.”
Gerald Murnane on the Art of Fiction: “A fatal question—what are people reading these days? Never mind what people are reading these days. What should I be writing about is the fundamental question.”
Prose by Dan Bevacqua, Caoilinn Hughes, Silas Jones, Alec Niedenthal, Adania Shibli, and Abdulah Sidran.
Poetry by Sargon Boulus, Egill Skallagrímsson, Rachel Mannheimer, Simone White, and Hua Xi.
Art by Ann Craven, Ala Ebtekar, and Josh Smith; cover by Seth Becker.
Preview: The New Yorker Magazine – Dec. 16, 2024
President Emmanuel Macron Has Plunged France into Chaos
Lawmakers have toppled the government for the first time since 1962. How did we get here? By Lauren Collins
What Will Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy Accomplish with Doge?
Two political newcomers have arrived to slash big government, but so far the project seems less revolutionary than advertised.
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