AOC is a hot glue-gun mess
Sorry honey, you offended no one, changed zero minds and risked nothing
Spectator Life
An intelligent mix of culture, style, travel, food and property, as well as where to go and what to see.
In search of the Iliad
Few places can conjure up such stories of love and loss, homesickness and heroism, gallantry and grief as Troy
September 13, 2021
How Harvard went woke
Harvard University claims to be America’s finest — but it has become a hotbed of timidity and bigotry
September 11, 2021
What high-school history books teach about 9/11
Most portray the attacks as just something that happened
September 8, 2021
Nikole Hannah-Jones schools a teacher
The godmother of 1619-ism takes on the anti-CRT movement
September 1, 2021
Give me back my homecoming, Georgetown
Hoya Sucks-a
August 30, 2021
What can’t civil rights law do?
The Biden administration seeks to ban states from banning school districts from banning unmasked faces
August 25, 2021
Bread is the staff of life
In times of scarcity and anxiety, it seems that we like to have proper bread back on our table again
In search of lost French restaurants
It was a sad day when La Petite Auberge passed from the scene a decade ago
August 24, 2021
CRT is the dialectic of suicide
Why are white people so reluctant to tell the truth about critical race theory?
August 22, 2021
Samurai nights in Aizu
Before its downfall, the Aizu domain was famous for its education system and strict samurai code
August 21, 2021
The American dream has no time for offal
Why is the US taste in meat so blinkered and narrow?
Paying the ferryman in Greece
Greece may never be this empty again
August 20, 2021
The future of liberal education
The war on liberal education is an assault on liberal democracy
August 11, 2021
Cuomo by design
The governor’s aesthetic abuse of New York
August 5, 2021
Guy Verhofstadt claims Olympic gold for the EU
The former chief Brexit negotiator for the European Parliament has done the math to prove EU dominance
August 1, 2021
When child abuse was avant-garde
The prominence of pedophilia in Sixties and Seventies thought
July 27, 2021
Simone Biles is a quitter
Even with her many mistakes during the qualifying round, Biles still posted the highest score in the competition
July 26, 2021
Trouble for the US at the Woke-yo Olympics
Should US athletes spend more time practicing and less time protesting?
July 23, 2021
The racist Cleveland Guardians baseball team must be renamed
Is it really appropriate for Cleveland to honor these imperialistic statues of cis white men?
How to win the culture war
If the right will take a stand against the new racial obsessions, the American public stands ready to give its support
Cruiser control
That test drive was bliss, something like the feeling of your first cigarette after your third drink
Read Ray Bradbury before he’s canceled
Frankly, it’s a wonder we are allowed to read him at all
July 22, 2021
Critical father theory
Black and white America alike suffer from the failure of functional older men to socialize younger men
My role in our demographic disaster
Children and families are the hottest topics in politics — and I can’t help but feel left out
The Brave New World of ‘sex-positive’ education
We are entering into a decadent dystopia
July 21, 2021
Lessons from a lobsterman
‘He’s a guy’s guy’, my father would say of Willard. Less known was that Willard was also a lobster gal’s guy
Stop using toddlers as pawns in the COVID war games
Public policy has now been divorced from reality
Down Santiago way
The Camino de Santiago is no normal pilgrimage