“... the promotion and rewarding of correct speech. In recent years the German state, together with the self-designated ‘democratic parties’, has funded wholly or in part a variety of institutions devoted to state-compatible political education for state-compatible democracy. These include Correctiv, which now has a staff of sixty and the Amadeu Antonio ...”

“... with big ideas for changing the world. The successful candidates were a bunch of mini-Thiels: self-styled libertarians, contemptuous of college and its pointless rituals. ‘They were – nearly all of them – boys,’ as Chafkin points out, ‘and, almost to a person, they shared Thiel’s social awkwardness.’ One 17-year-old was hoping to extend the ...”

“... to serve as a model for the nations of the world. That lies in its genetic programme.’ Self-satisfaction is scarcely unfamiliar in Europe. But the contemporary mood is something different: an apparently illimitable narcissism, in which the reflection in the water transfigures the future of the planet into the image of the beholder. What explains ...”

“... power. That the succession was a major issue underlying the events of January and February 2011 is self-evident. But the sensational entry onto the political stage of young liberal and leftist activists and, above all, of hundreds of thousands if not several millions of ordinary Egyptians who found the courage to stand up and shout aloud their pent-up anger at ...”

“... with anyone … This attitude lasted six or seven months.’ Once home, he began to make self-portraits in pencil, which left him ‘wholly dissatisfied’. He continued to be supported by his father until he was 27. No one wanted him to become an artist, and there was no contemporary art or artist he admired whose work he saw in the city’s ...”

“... An old-school jazz fan like Sinatra, he worshipped Louis Armstrong and closely studied Satchmo’s self-presentation and singular way with a tune. Crosby’s delivery was ‘cool’ in a way that was entirely new to the mainstream, studded with jazz tics such as unexpected pauses and slurred or flattened notes. His understanding of microphone technique meant ...”

“... was a sort of carpaccio of the middle and lower parts of my torso, a slice of the inside of the self. While I saw some well-known organs clearly, the cancer as it appeared on the screen seemed nothing more than a smudge, a few faint grains. If the doctor had not pointed them out to me, I would have given myself a clean bill of health and gone to play ...”

“... a book, it was also a political ‘project’, with a manifesto written by members of the CPGB’s self-consciously forward-looking Eurocommunist wing. ‘The malaise of the left is that the old is dying but the new cannot yet be born,’ the book ended, quoting from the New Times manifesto. ‘We are searching for a new political language. We can imagine it ...”

“... been opened. Once opened, it is not an easy book to close. Understandably a large number of the self-portraits were taken from the Uffizi collection, but in all other respects the work is a testament to Goldscheider’s archival passion, which represented the fulfilment of Burckhardt’s original intention, conceived in the previous century, to enlist ...”

“... suddenness and severity’ it should have some ‘chastening influence … on the self-confidence of mankind’, and Henry Adams likened the news to the foundering of the Republican Party: ‘the sum and triumph of civilisation … our greatest achievement sinks at a touch … Nature jeers at us for our folly.’ The sinking of the Titanic ...”

“... metre he found congenial for his personal poems he looks back with calm irony at his old fiery self: I was a fire-breathing Catholic C.O., and made my manic statement, telling off the state and president, and then sat waiting sentence in the bull pen beside a Negro boy with curlicues of marijuana in his hair. Randall Jarrell’s five-line poem ‘The ...”

“... frivolous to be on the golf course when he was sending soldiers into battle. Obama was not so self-denying. Ben Rhodes describes what happened when news came through in August 2014 that the journalist Jim Foley had been beheaded by Isis. Video footage of this ghastly event arrived while Obama was holidaying on Martha’s Vineyard. He wrestled with how to ...”

“... as he marries Blackwood. These haunted poems are aspects of what he calls ‘my conscious smile of self-incrimination’.Lowell​ emerges from his poems and letters as both thoughtless and tortured, entitled and damaged. Hardwick’s letters are more direct, her rage – and her interest in protecting her daughter – coming to the fore. But she is also ...”

“... and 20th centuries.* While a British-educated middle class emerged in India and began to aspire to self-rule, Nepal remained a country of peasants, nomads and traders, controlled by a few clans and families. Previously dependent on China, its high-caste Hindu ruling class courted the British as they expanded across India in the 19th century. As in the ...”

“... begin a retreat from empire in his effort to put ‘America first’. With a book-length flurry of self-ennoblement, The Corrosion of Conservatism: Why I Left the Right (2018), Boot gave up on the Republican Party and discovered white male privilege – as well as the fact that he was a beneficiary of it. He was preparing for his new political identity as a ...”