Against flakes
The new trend seems to be to accept an invitation, and then, mere hours before, to duck out of it
Features
Tuesday
Are we becoming post-literate?
Audio-driven content is rendering reading and writing obsolete
What the Amish can teach us about tech
Like them we should ask: ‘What is this tool for and what does it make us become?’
Marijuana legalization has been a disaster
It is high time that these sorts of reckless, devastating policies were discredited
Why the comet 3I/Atlas still fascinates
Comets mark our progress, our sense of wonder and our fears
Wednesday
Bill Gates and the rightward shift of the billionaires
The country’s tycoons are abandoning old orthodoxies with speed
King Charles will make a splash at US-250
As in 1976, the British royal family hopes to promote the ‘Special Relationship’
George Santos’s prison diary
Trump’s reprieve was a gift from God
The cost of Zohran
Mayor Mamdani’s policies are guaranteed to wreck New York City
Is Donald Trump a game theorist?
There may be method to his madness
Why Thomas Sowell still matters
His aphoristic style fits the era of short attention spans
Prince Andrew finds refuge in video games
The disgraced former prince is living in digital exile
Time for a reckoning on the 2020 election
The previous election was rife with anomalies
Putin thinks time is on his side
He is now willing to stake all on victory in the field
I’m a slave to my Apple Watch
Beware human-like tech
Humans are more than just apes
Unlike chimps, we have an alarming willingess to believe what we’re told
Pope Leo is following in Francis’s footsteps
The new pope refuses to discipline bishops who move against traditionalists
Trump is being misled on Venezuela
He risks being bounced into an unpopular foreign war
Wokeness ended my backroom Jeopardy! habit
A bootleg re-enactment of the game succumbed to petty drama
Michael Heath on 75 years at The Spectator
The magazine’s longtime cartoonist speaks