Consider the costs
The rush to impose sweeping restrictions on public and commercial life across the entire economy should be more carefully evaluated
Politics
Read about the latest political news, views and analysis
Sunday
Saturday
America is socialist, dummy
Let us count the ways…
Why you should subscribe to The Spectator
A letter from US editor Freddy Gray
Friday
Coronavirus will give Trump a second term
The same people warning that Trump would operate an authoritarian regime are now complaining he isn’t being authoritarian enough
Coronavirus keeps the spotlight on Trump and away from Joe Biden
The less the latter appears in public, the more popular he will become
How coronavirus could kill conservatism
Modern American conservatism is a funny hybrid animal. Can it adequately respond to this crisis?
After the coronavirus, who wins the recovery?
The pandemic will recede, and so will the panic it has touched off — though bad policy precedents will stick around
How government should respond
The US government should establish a Health Finance Corporation
Thursday
Why Tulsi backed Biden
She suspended her campaign at the right moment
Wednesday
Vermin Supreme’s quest to win hearts, minds and the Libertarian primaries
‘I’ve gotten TikTok famous all of a sudden’
Tuesday
Biden bus rolls over Bernie in Florida, Illinois and Arizona
It’ll take more than a global pandemic to stop the 77-year-old asthmatic
The coronavirus is springing the Thucydides trap
War isn’t inevitable, until it is
Sunday
Coughing crotchety codgers at a dull DC coronavirus debate
Joe Biden decided to put the nation at ease by coughing twice throughout his first answer about the coronavirus
Saturday
Federal health agencies risk lives in their response to COVID-19
Be sure to trust but verify the information being delivered to you
Friday
What have we learned since the swine flu outbreak?
Trump’s national emergency declaration shows what we’ve learned since H1N1
Thursday
EXCLUSIVE: Karlie Kloss’s dad helps Jared with coronavirus ‘research’
Kurt Kloss asked a doctors’ Facebook group with over 20,000 members for tips
COVID-19 is terrifying — as a weapon of political propaganda
The Wuhan Panic is a textbook case of the Rahm Emanuel principle that you never want a good crisis to go to waste
Wednesday
Trump cannot defeat a virus
The coronavirus response is defined by delusion and petulance
Coronavirus’s biggest victim? Money
Balancing the books hasn’t just gone out of fashion — it is treated as if it were some quaint tradition which died out long ago
Matt Gaetz calls from self-quarantine
‘I might as well have licked the guy’s toilet seat’