Is everything political?
The world is, always was and always will be largely ungovernable and chaotic
Alexis de Tocqueville
Tuesday
Monday
The classroom panopticon
America’s elite has been cowardly and conformist for too long, with effects that are only too obvious
Wednesday
Tocqueville’s warning about the Democrats
The emotional glue of the Democratic coalition is resentment of the Republican coalition
Democracy by numbers
It seems plausible that a small democracy is more intelligent and more wisely ruled than a modern mass one like America
Thursday
Taking a page from Lenin’s playbook
It’s like Biden wants us to be poor
Monday
An un-American accusation
Our political class defines itself chiefly by partisan allegiance
Thursday
The foremost challenge facing Western democracies
In the absence of a Brahmin class, any civilization worthy of the name is impossible
Friday
Those emails seeking donations aren’t junk mail
They are beacons of the civil society Tocqueville considered crucial to American democracy
Monday
Don’t tell your friends to quit their ‘problematic’ tech jobs
There’s never been a better time for encouraging tech companies’ rank-and-file to speak up
Wednesday
The lockdown list: books to read during quarantine
Daily reading recommendations from The Spectator’s writers and editors
