Is Randi Weingarten America’s most divisive woman?
While hawking her book, Weingarten suggested the US is under ‘Nazi occupation’
Spectator Life
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September 29, 2025
Why is Bad Bunny performing at the Super Bowl?
Globalization is coming for America’s most popular sport
Why Chicago Teachers Union lionized a terrorist
The post, praising Assata Shakur, exposed a union more focused on ideology than education
September 28, 2025
Why the left wants you to be weak
A worldview in which fitness signals vanity, privilege, ableism and even conservatism
September 23, 2025
Why Eleven Madison Park had to put meat back on the menu
Besides a handful of hippies, the market just isn’t there yet for such a vast variety of vegan menus
Why I was right to ban vegans
You cannot maintain a financially stable business by restricting the dietary options
Is ‘carbon butter’ really good for us?
As with pretty much all of these ‘foods of the future’ we simply don’t know what long-term consumption will do to us
My quest for the perfect Christmas broccoli
Come December, the stem will snap clean, releasing the cold-green scent of chlorophyll and victory
Is this America’s most racist town?
At home with the leader of the KKK
September 22, 2025
Tyl and error
Donald Trump advised pregnant women not to take Tylenol
September 19, 2025
Robert Munsch’s license to die
Canada has granted the hugely successful children’s author permission for medical assistance in dying
September 17, 2025
Rand Paul needles fired CDC director Susan Monarez
Part of a slow-moving ongoing referendum on America’s disastrous Covid policies
September 13, 2025
Don’t let Serena bully you into taking the fat shot
If the queen of tennis can no longer nail diet and exercise 101, then what hope for us mere mortals?
September 9, 2025
Inside the cult of Equinox
Fueled by a mysterious marketing campaign, the gym now has more than 100 outposts
Locatelli has entered the premier league of museum dining
The best Italian chefs walk the line between history and the future
Confessions of a bear hunter
I’d never killed one before. I’d hunted other animals: deer, rabbits, doves, ducks, turkeys and so on
September 7, 2025
Why is ESPN ruining NFL RedZone?
We were promised seven hours of commercial-free football. Enter greedy executives…
September 6, 2025
Why America’s schools are failing
Teachers have been trained in programs heavily influenced by an ideology that rejects truth
August 30, 2025
The students bullied into being woke
Eighty-eight percent of students admitted they ‘have pretended to hold more progressive views… to succeed socially or academically’
August 29, 2025
Is RFK Jr. Trump’s Achilles’ heel?
While Trump has cornered the Democrats on a number of issues, Kennedy’s actions on vaccines threaten his boss’s legacy
August 23, 2025
Young people should drink more, no great story starts with salad
Young Americans are drinking less than ever before
Fresh tracks in ancient territories
Whistler Blackcomb’s world-class slopes are shaped by Indigenous stories
August 20, 2025
Why I am never doing the ‘Pete & Bobby Challenge’
I reject this idea of treating life as though it were Basic Training
August 16, 2025
Male cheerleaders? Who cares
Focus on your fantasy team instead
Chicago Public Schools have failed. But there’s another option
Illinois has been offered school choice. Will Governor Pritzker decide in favor of the Chicago Teachers Union or the students it has left behind?
August 15, 2025
Donald Trump saved the UFC
It’s become the sport of the GOP
August 13, 2025
Beware the Nagasaki and Hiroshima revisionism
Japan started a total war. America finished it
August 9, 2025
Snowshoeing with septuagenarians
Finding my ikigai on Japan’s frozen edges
August 3, 2025
Sydney Sweeney, Gwyneth Paltrow and the misogynists
The American Eagle ad campaign is a societal Rorschach test
