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The Spectator

Out now: the August edition of The Spectator World

Hell hath no fury like the average American. As temperatures, tempers and crime stats rise, our August 2021 edition asks if Americans are angrier than they’ve ever been. Peter Wood examines the evolution of the right’s anger through the astute lyrics of country singer Toby Keith, from post-9/11 fury to the present despondency. Sohrab Ahmari considers the crime surge in American cities, which he claims is a consequence of anti-anti-crime policies pushed by progressives. Mary Eberstadt credits climbing crime rates to the floundering influence of fathers in American households.

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Monday

Daniel McCarthy

The pro-Kavanaugh pundits who make him look guilty

‘There’ll be another woman.’ A friend of mine who has been in political journalism much longer than I have told me this weekend to expect another accuser against Brett Kavanaugh to come forward — and sure enough, the New Yorker on Sunday revealed one. Deborah Ramirez alleges that when they were students at Yale, a drunken Kavanaugh exposed himself to her at a party and touched her with his penis. As yet, however, Ronan Farrow and Jane Mayer write, ‘The New Yorker has not confirmed with other eyewitnesses that Kavanaugh was present at the party.

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