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THE cast of this years pantomime at the Grange Theatre in Northwich has been announced.

The most recent public event in our ChinaFile Presents series, which we held October 15 in New York, was a discussion of the philosopher Daniel A. Bell’s controversial book, The China Model: Political Meritocracy and the Limits of Democracy, co-hosted with The New York Review of Books. The panelists were Timothy Garton Ash, Mark Danner, Zhang Taisu, and Andrew Nathan, and

At just 15, Thomas Heilman now joins Michael Phelps as one of the only two US men to have gone sub-52 in the 100 fly before turning 19.

“An ambassador is an honest gentleman, sent abroad to lie abroad for the good of his country,” Sir Henry Wotton wrote in 1604. Just as the United States is so large that its citizens can experience every kind of climate without using a passport, so America’s politicians don’t have to leave the country to lie in the national interest. This, naturally, is their interest, writ large and lucrative.

The eco-war on nuclear power is at the heart of Germany’s catastrophic energy crisis.

Open-air theatre audiences will be following Alice down the rabbit hole at Bridge End Gardens in a production of Alice in Wonderland in Saffron Walden.

Wayne-bred David Brooks is the public intellectual of the moment. But our writer found out he doesn’t check his facts.

The venerated New York Times editor, author of a widely lauded book defending Henry Kissinger, is stepping down from the paper.

As a pilot in the 160th, Brady was the air mission commander for the operation. He and some of his fellow “Night Stalkers” felt the SEALs’ plan was too risky.

Members of the Tufts University community share their favorite fiction and nonfiction books in—classics, hidden gems, and recent releases