How to make debate great again
‘ The Spectator is firmly in favor of actual debate, not just performative chest-puffing’
Features
Monday
A new war on obesity is underway
Twisted incentives are fueling the obesity crisis. These campaigners want to fix that
The case against surrogacy
Nobody is morally entitled to buy or have whatever they want, especially a human baby
Why antivax is back
Something changed post-Covid — and it may explain RFK Jr.’s rise in the polls
The GOP’s tribal warfare
These are the factions that will decide who wins the nomination
Trump versus the party
Once again, the GOP has Three Stooges syndrome
The once and future president?
All Trump has to do is stay out of jail long enough to get back into the Oval Office
Operation Get Trump
For the FBI and other agencies, going too far has been worth it in the past
Joe Exotic’s presidential plans from prison
‘I want to debate Biden on all the failed promises he made,’ says the Tiger King star
My illegal abortion
Sixty years on, I still can’t bear to think about it
What’s the media’s problem with black masculinity?
The only black men now being showcased are those who’ve conceded their masculinity
The war on life’s simple pleasures
Time and again we are told that in pursuit of a cleaner planet, we all have to be miserable
Shakespeare in black and white
Race is not where we find it — it is where we put it
What would Trump’s second-term foreign policy look like?
To the extent the former president has a worldview of his own, it is best understood as a smorgasbord of nationalism and pseudomercantilism
Caroline Calloway sets the record straight
A decade ago, Calloway was all the rage, an Instagram celebrity with actual writing talent, a pretty face and a promising future
Meet the men who want to bring back the woolly mammoth
Dr. George Church and Ben Lamm say they’re not creating a real-life Jurassic Park
Sunday
How will the decline of cable news affect politics?
2024 is already shaping up to feel very different from previous, TV-news-dominated campaigns
Reminders of the Cold War in Vienna and Budapest
Apparently an acquaintance has dubbed me the ‘Kremlinologist of the right’
Can the 2024 election save cable news?
The two networks that a few decades ago changed the way the world consumes news are each facing oncoming storms
Tucker Carlson can live without Fox News. Can they live without him?
‘You can tell when someone’s lying to you or when someone’s shading the truth or trying to spin you’
