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The Print Edition

Hello, hello.

The third incarnation of The Print Edition is here. Meet The Summer Issue, just in time for relaxation, grilling and nostalgic beer. The cover is a wonderful Fairfield Porter painting of Maine, which sets the right tone for...

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50 For 250

American Classics

How are we feeling today? Let’s agree that the World Cup is good, the heat is bad and getting married in Madison Square Garden is worse. Oh, and America is celebrating 250 years under current management.

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More Rules for Modern Life

Setting a Higher Standard

The first iteration of Rules for Modern Life remains the most widely read newsletter in the history of The Contender. Everything written there still stands, particularly rules no. 4, 16 and 28. A year later, Fifty...

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On Further Reflection


I’m sitting in an airline lounge for two hours and figured I could answer some of your questions. That seems fitting somehow.

So please ask whatever’s on your mind—this is one of the benefits of subscribing to the newsletter. Be as...

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The Weekend Reader


LIBBY CAMPS in NORTHERN MAINE

A while back, James Harvey-Kelly and I were talking about where we wanted to go for our next FT story. When he said he had always wanted to go on a float plane I knew we had to go to Libby Camps in Nort...

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