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This piece appeared in The Sunday Times on 14 December 2024 This is not the way it was supposed to end. Joe Biden has faced more than his fair share of setbacks. “When you get knocked down, get up!” his father, Joseph Biden Sr, would say. And Biden will get up this time, too, after
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A version of the following piece appeared in The Sunday Times on December 31, 2023 Presidential election years have often struck Americans as deeply portentous. To Walt Whitman, the self-described “poet of democracy”, 1860 was “the year of meteors” in which “the comet that came unannounced out of the North flaring in heaven” augured a
Adam Smith: Historian 