How to make debate great again
‘ The Spectator is firmly in favor of actual debate, not just performative chest-puffing’
Elon musk
Monday
Friday
Lina Khan’s very bad week
Plus: Biden’s bougie brunch lid
Thursday
RIP Twitter. Meet Threads
Musk just got Zucced
Friday
Trans women take over DC softball
Plus: When in Rome, brawl as the tech bros do
Tuesday
Elon Musk: innovator, CEO, ket head
The Twitter and Tesla chief has ‘told people he microdoses’ the horse tranquilizer
Friday
In praise of megarich adventurers
Stop telling them how to spend their money
Thursday
The people deserve a Mark Zuckerberg-Elon Musk cage fight in Vegas
Social media billionaires appear bound for a brawl
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
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
Wednesday
The DeSantis announcement is another Elon Musk power move
It reinforces that there’s a new sheriff of Twitter
Thursday
Is Elon Musk’s war on remote work moral?
‘He could provide them with chauffeured Teslas to make their journeys to work easier’
Wednesday
Elon Musk’s new CEO will move Twitter toward streaming
Other social media platforms haven’t even attempted such a thing
Friday
How Elon Musk turned Twitter into the post-TV Fox News
Tucker Carlson is just the beginning
Sunday
Elon Musk is turning Twitter into Spirit Airlines
His war on Substack suggests he doesn’t understand the site he bought
Tuesday
The fake think tank that fueled the Russiagate narrative
Hamilton 68 marks a new chapter in politically motivated disinformation
Thursday
The beautiful people turn their private jets towards Davos
It’s that time of year again!
Wednesday
The weirdest stuff you can get at the Twitter auction
Statues, masks and, horror of horrors, a gas range
Monday
The Brooks Brothers riot comes to Brazil
America is now in the business of exporting its insurrections
Thursday
The shocking Hunter Biden twists in the Twitter Files
Former New York Post editor Emma-Jo Morris describes how Twitter suppressed her story
Monday
Elon Musk’s weird weekend
The Twitter chief watched the World Cup final… then offered to step down
