Why have parties suddenly gotten good?
Even an old grump like me has been having a good time
Life
Tuesday
Remembering George Eastman
Two decades after the camera tycoon entered the last darkroom, Henry Clune published a thinly veiled roman-à-clef about the morose magnate
Wednesday
New York is a people pleaser’s hell
The city is a psychological assault course, an emotional minefield, for people like me who are chronically apologetic
Why BDSM is innately conservative
S&M people might look like perverted children of the Sixties. But for all their weird ways this crowd is the natural ally of conservatives
Remembering John Gardner
The late novelist’s wound was more gaping than most
A history of intellect
The Greeks had a concept of the ‘intellect’ that is the diametric opposite of our own
Visiting Glashütte, the small town in East Germany that has mastered time
German watchmaking ticks on
Tuesday
The Spectator’s 2023 Holiday Gift Guide
The staff and writers help you stuff your stockings
Why America’s top TV networks are banking on English soccer
It sure seems like there are more red-blooded Americans patrolling our streets in Arsenal and Liverpool shirts these days
The difference between children and tattoos
When did it become socially acceptable to discuss the state of another man’s testicles?
The decline of the stylish man
What’s happening on the London fashion front?
Revisiting Gettysburg
No filmmaker has explored the imaginative appeal of the Civil War in as much depth or from such diverse angles as Ron Maxwell
The rebuilding of the Tower of Babel
Mass communication tends by its nature to the generation of propaganda
Friday
The sorry state of Supreme
How the greatest streetwear brand lost its cool, sold its soul and — apparently — became ‘institutionally racist’
Should I join a free-love Marxist commune?
For all my bohemian pretensions, I’m just an old-fashioned bourgeois boy at heart
The cemeteries of New York State
Prose may be deathless, but authors are not — and some of us honor those who compose with visits to where they decompose
Left-wing politics has repoliticized the arts
The left’s cultural triumph
Football is now going hog-wild for legal betting
You can bet the game’s embrace of its sportsbook partners will turn out better for them than for bettors
Wednesday
The cult of cleverness
Cleverness is overrated
Roque is alive and well in Angelica, New York
On the first weekend of every August, Angelica hosts a tournament in its village park during ‘Heritage Days’