Kanye West is turning into Candace Owens
His ‘White Lives Matter’ stunt is bog-standard trolling
Spectator Life
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October 4, 2022
Degenerate sports gambling is good for the soul
The morality police don’t understand why people bet on football
October 3, 2022
Virgin Atlantic launches woke uniform policy
No ordinary airline, indeed
Spain’s caminos come calling
There is a haunting beauty to their desolate vistas, an intimidatingly brutal type of splendor
October 2, 2022
Two cheers for grocery store shopping during inflation
Cooking at home may be triggering a needed shift in the restaurant industry
September 28, 2022
No one does hurricanes like Florida Man
As Ian bears down, even the state’s usual critics have been muted
September 27, 2022
Raise your hand if you have confidence in the USMNT
The US is, in theory, spoiled for choice when it comes to star soccer players
September 26, 2022
Adam Levine’s alleged mistress is no victim
We used to call these women ‘homewreckers’
September 20, 2022
Glenn Youngkin’s transgender policy is just common sense
He wants to wrest power from schools and give it back to parents
September 19, 2022
High tea with the Queen in a heavenly palace?
Richard liked to say that I became a royalist because Prince Philip paid special attention to me
Forget trains: American car culture is worth defending
We have a lot of space and a lot of horsepower, and we will not apologize
September 16, 2022
An armed society is a polite society
A little ditty from Mississippi illustrates the point
September 14, 2022
Even the Queen’s clothes evoked her sense of duty
She was a servant, not a celebrity
September 9, 2022
Surprise! BYU found no evidence of racial slurs at volleyball game
The story warranted immediate skepticism for a number of reasons
September 8, 2022
College condemns professor who celebrated Queen Elizabeth’s death
Carnegie Mellon’s Uju Anya called the Queen the ‘chief monarch of a thieving raping genocidal empire’
The Trinity School gets its anti-woke comeuppance
One of its directors calls for vigilante action against white Republicans
September 6, 2022
Ted Cruz is right about ‘slacker baristas’ and their college debt
Not everyone is going to ‘make it’
September 4, 2022
Barbecue is America’s food
Firing up the grill one last time this Labor Day
September 1, 2022
A volleyball player’s hate crime accusation falls apart
Where is the evidence of Duke’s Rachel Richardson being racially abused during a game?
August 31, 2022
Why I left public education for a Christian school
Not because I couldn’t ‘handle it’
Chess grandmaster Bobby Fischer’s fall from grace
It was both acute and irreversible
August 30, 2022
Stop telling people not to go to college
We need to be careful about glamorizing manual labor
From Moscow to Kyiv and back again
War and revolution have trailed me like banshees
Eating well at a time of inflation
Cooking is a duty, a vocation and an adventure, requiring grace and wisdom as much as ingredients and recipes
On constant gardening
Nature, in the firm hands of the gardener, is trained up to produce food for people
A Joycean odyssey
In search of the Irish author’s Swiss resting place
Spending Labor Day on the Cape
This time of year always makes me nostalgic for the New England coast
August 26, 2022
‘Oxford or Cambridge?’: the vacation edition
Visiting university towns for a uniquely civilized — and wholly British — experience
August 24, 2022
Biden’s unforgivable student loan authoritarianism
The president doubles down on a fundamentally anti-democratic approach to governance
