Features
GOP West: could Republicans have an Arizona advantage?
Tolerating illegal immigration might not be the winning issue Democrats have long assumed it to be
Features
Features
The Ukraine blame game
There was never anything in the great Ukrainian quid pro quo. It was props and stagecraft
Features
Britain is dangerously close to having an overtly anti-American prime minister
What would that mean for the so-called special relationship?
Features
Forever in our debt
To be overspending to the extent that Trump is doing is to invite disaster
Features
Who likes Mike?
For the Democratic patriciate, a Bloomberg candidacy rests on the idea of a return to normalcy
Features
The real reason for college food fights
Scarcely a month passes without a food-related scandal causing uproar on campus
Books and Arts
Books and Arts
Leonardo da Virtual
Mass tourism has overwhelmed our major museums. Could virtual reality be the solution?
Books and Arts
The haunting of Russell Kirk
The founding father of 20th-century American conservatism was also a connoisseur of the supernatural and a bestselling novelist
Books and Arts
The Spectator’s Books of the Year 2019
Spectator contributors choose their favorite titles of 2019
Books and Arts
Christmas crackers: the tragic soul of Natalie Cole
Natalie Cole had an instant pocket pop career. Her family, she said, were like ‘the black Kennedys’; and look how the Kennedys turned out
Life
Life
Michael Wolff is working on ‘nothing’
A surprising number of my contemporaries have children who are stand-up comics
Life
My wild Key West
I have never been anywhere where the sea has such beautiful colors that change so rapidly
Life
Digby Dent on lawn darts in winter
Taking a doughy-handed son of privilege and making him clubbable doesn’t happen by magic
Life
The joy of spending Christmas alone
I learned it’s frowned upon to say things like Christmas carols make me want to blow my brains out
Life
White Christmas: the magic of the festive drugs binge
Among partying druggies, the trust that has disappeared from every level of society is fully present
Life
American English must be the most carelessly spoken and written dialect on Earth
Part of the problem is sheer mental and physical laziness
Life
Headlines of the coming year
Trump Tweet Hints At Displeasure With Lawyer ‘Rudy Is A Great Guy But He Is Making Trump Look Evil And Should Stop Going On TV NOW!!!’
Food and Drink
Food and Drink
Transparent spirit: craft distilling has come to Washington DC big time
Everything at One Eight Distilling is good. The vodka is somehow bearable. The rye is melt-your-face fantastic
Food and Drink
For duck’s sake: New York’s foie gras ban is classic political posturing
The ban is about much more than animal rights. It is about punishing the rich. And it has to be, because the animal-rights case has no merit
Food and Drink
Bowl food: childhood memories have inspired a new craze for cookie dough
Hundreds of customers can be seen snaking around the block, eagerly awaiting tubs and cones of buttery, sugary batter
