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A new biography digs into the life of William F Buckley Jr. Its author thinks the rightwing intellectual has some lessons for the left

THE READING LIST: As the world approaches the centenary of the celebrated novelist, television pundit and all-around man of letters, Martin Chilton recalls his greatest work, most withering putdowns, and chronicles a career that devolved into ‘crackpot’ conspiracy theories, illness and, perhaps most depressing of all, boredom

Will a second Trump term bring a Putin-like dictatorship or the more subtle example of Hungary's Viktor Orbán?

The pandemic showed that America's founders were right to create a system of checks and balances that made it hard for leaders to easily have their way.

Patrick Ruffini, a GOP pollster, soft-pedals abortion and insurrection but is sharp on his party’s working-class turn

An intimate venue brings Baldwin and Buckley’s clash back to life; Danny Lee Wynter falls foul of a caped crusader (and too much exposition); and an island is threatened by outsiders

The nicest man in British showbiz is livid at what he calls ‘an unforgivable collapse in standards’ in government

The Star Trek actor talks to Louis Chilton about the ‘provocateur’ Ryan Murphy, how TV has damaged debate, and why he thinks democracy may not survive

The Star Trek actor is making his West End debut in a play about the 1968 US TV political debates between Gore Vidal and William F Buckley. But he fears the pair’s fiery exchanges may be partly to blame for today’s polarised politics