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If you practice with low-quality materials, you'll end up with low-quality results no matter how long you spend studying. Many test-prep companies release their own versions of SAT questions that are supposedly comparable to questions on the real test. DO NOT use these questions exclusively for practice! For our weekend essay Lyndsey Stonebridge considers the many afterlives of Martin Heidegger, the German thinker whose heavy flirtation with Nazism probably makes him the most radioactive philosopher of the 20th century. Stonebridge is good on the contemporary hard-right’s fandom of Heidegger, whether that’s in Russia (Alexander Dugin) or the US (Richard B Spencer and Steve Bannon). Still, Heidegger’s call for existential courage, however contaminated, does not belong to extremists alone.

Good morning, and welcome to the Saturday Read, the New Statesman ’s weekly guide to the best writing on ideas, politics, books and culture. This is Will . We have a superb selection of reportage, interviews and comment pieces for you this weekend.

Sheffield will be in front of their home fans on Saturday, but a look at the line shows they might need that home-pitch advantage. They will take on Bournemouth at 10:00 a.m. ET on Saturday. Six councillors who resigned that evening are planning to form the Oxford Socialist Independents, not to be confused with the Independent Group set up by two other Oxford Labour councillors who had resigned the week before. On 26 October Labour lost its majority on Oxford city council – for the first time since 2010 – after Barbara Coyne became the ninth councillor to resign. Across the country, 31 councillors have so far resigned in response to the party’s position on the conflict. Their rallying call is that Labour should demand a ceasefire. While discontent is spreading, nearly a third of the resignations have been in Oxford. You may have read a number of pieces on Martin Amis this week, but Tom Gatti’s reflection for us – on Amis’s tenure in the late Seventies as our literary editor – is a fascinating read. He has pieced together accounts of Amis from that time, not least by Claire Tomalin, who first commissioned him for the NS (“From the start he liked to put his arm around my waist and hold it there, standing beside me. I liked it too”), and Clive James, who wrote for the magazine in the same era:

For all the talk of Western decline and decadence, it is extraordinary to see what a little geopolitical pressure can do. To establish pax Americana, the “old continent” had to make a more peaceful and humble liberal cosmopolitan anti-nationalism its official moral system, but is this not implicitly a civilisational alliance we are seeing? HL — Michael Prodger, our inimitable art critic, has written the piece I’ve always wanted to read on Christopher Wren, the “man who built Britain”. As Blair well knew, the true purpose of the war wasn’t to prevent the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) but regime change, albeit in contravention of international law and the UN. The neoconservatives in Washington, and Cheney and Rumsfeld, who wanted to enhance and project American power, made no secret of their contempt for international law and their loathing of the UN. Blair’s task was to sell this war to Labour MPs and a liberal media who professed to revere international law and the UN. Not to toot our own horn, but toot. We offer a free five-day trial of our test-prep program. The program will assess your strengths and weaknesses and give you practice questions to fit the specific areas where you need improvement. Basically, it does all the hard work of SAT studying (analyzing your problem areas and zeroing in on where you make the most mistakes) for you!I turned up unsure of what to expect. Four hours later, the imam – a young man not much older than myself, who had just spent the past half an hour distributing Quality Street while testing the room on the Quran – called for the lights to be turned off for the evening’s final prayers, which ends with a rhythmic chanting of “Allah”. “Harry, you can say ‘Allah’ if you want, it is for non-believers too. Or you can just listen, it’s up to you,” the imam said. Anoosh explains how Britain became a country that never has enough time.“As a nation we are spending less time seeing our friends, eating at restaurants, going out, exercising and volunteering.” The lines of tension in the fight over trans and sex-based rights are familiar. But is there more harmony between the two sides than there appears to be? Is there a landing zone for an agreement on the issue within Labour before the 2024 general election? I spoke to Rosie Duffield, Ben Bradshaw and others in the party for this new long-read on the vexed subject.

John Gray sounds the alarm on Ukraine . Twenty years after the invasion of Iraq, are a new generation of liberal hawks, “who view Ukraine as the pivotal battlefield in a global struggle for democracy”, leading us into another quagmire?

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