‘When I asked my winsome Han tour guide what would happen when the skyscrapers collapsed, she said with cheerful gusto, “We’ll build them again!”’

‘In case some of you Europeans were getting hopeful, no, mainstream demography does not predict that Americans are on the brink of extinction’

'Obama's attempt to discourage a British referendum on EU membership was old-style imperialism'

‘When a book or album no longer takes up space, doesn’t it seem less important, less precious?’