The Economist - USA (2021-12-18)

The Economist December 18th 2021 Holiday specials 17 and soft Brexit—each could beat one of the others but not both. If asked, B ...

18 Holiday specials The Economist December 18th 2021 author Eric Posner argue that the method could poten­ tially work well in o ...

The Economist December 18th 2021 Holiday specials 19 spacetravel F IGHTING FIT T he earlydays of the American space programme— d ...

20 Holiday specials The Economist December 18th 2021 tious person can feel like a nag. A good combination of personality traits  ...

The Economist December 18th 2021 Holiday specials 21 singapore T HE LAST HOLDOUT W ah! sixslices of bread for breakfast: Sng Mui ...

22 Holiday specials The Economist December 18th 2021 government flat, says his daughter. He reared pigs and picked  and  sold  h ...

The Economist December 18th 2021 Holiday specials 23 sate landowners at market value. Prospective buyers may wager they can buy ...

24 Holiday specials The Economist December 18th 2021 julius caesar HE CAME, HE SAW, HE LIED H emingway, orwell,Joyce, Turgenev:  ...

The Economist December 18th 2021 Holiday specials 25 without fear of being surprised by the Gauls”. From the second camp, Caesar ...

26 Holiday specials The Economist December 18th 2021 command, his enemies would no doubt have put him on trial. Instead, in 49bc ...

The Economist December 18th 2021 Holiday specials 27 britishsocialhistory P OCOCK’S P EN PALS T he letterscame  every  day.  Som ...

28 Holiday specials The Economist December 18th 2021 The  project  could  hardly  have  been  described  as professional.  From ...

The Economist December 18th 2021 Holiday specials 29 The content changes too, slowly but perceptibly, as social  mores  and  att ...

the soviet disunion U NFINISHED B USINESS Thirty years ago, the deal which dissolved the Soviet Union rested on the untested ide ...

The Economist December 18th 2021 Holiday essay 31 Yeltsin and most of Russia rallied against revanchist attempts to keep them in ...

32 Holiday essay The Economist December 18th 2021 they had done—to inform Moscow of what had happened.  Mr Gorbachev was furious ...

The Economist December 18th 2021 Holidayessay 33 MrPutin’sreturntothepresidencyin 2012 cameata timewhen theglobalfinancialcrisis ...

I n november 2021Vladislav  Surkov,  Mr Putin’s  cynical,  loyal  ideologist,  turned his  attention  to  the  question  of  emp ...

The Economist December 18th 2021 Holiday specials 35 theideaofeurope In the summer of 1896 a carriage pulled into the town of Ro ...

36 Holiday specials The Economist December 18th 2021 ing in grand hotels while recruiting for his movement. He also got money fr ...