Trump vs the cities
Progressive leadership is destroying urban America
Paywall
Monday
The Spectator’s Books of the Year 2019
Spectator contributors choose their favorite titles of 2019
Friday
The haunting of Russell Kirk
The founding father of 20th-century American conservatism was also a connoisseur of the supernatural and a bestselling novelist
We are all Greta now
A lot of children’s literature today is horribly right-on
Michael Wolff is working on ‘nothing’
A surprising number of my contemporaries have children who are stand-up comics
Wednesday
Leonardo da Virtual
Mass tourism has overwhelmed our major museums. Could virtual reality be the solution?
Transparent spirit: craft distilling has come to Washington DC big time
Everything at One Eight Distilling is good. The vodka is somehow bearable. The rye is melt-your-face fantastic
Sunday
The pod delusion
Why I hate all podcasts — even the ones I like
Payton’s place
Netflix’s The Politician is satire without purpose
Who likes Mike?
For the Democratic patriciate, a Bloomberg candidacy rests on the idea of a return to normalcy
Saturday
Forever in our debt
To be overspending to the extent that Trump is doing is to invite disaster
Britain is dangerously close to having an overtly anti-American prime minister
What would that mean for the so-called special relationship?
E-scooters are a wretched species to be introduced into the urban ecosystem
DC is the Wild West of e-scooterdom: there are just too many operating here
My morning with Black Lives Matter UK
By the time I was 12, I was listening to Bob Marley while memorizing Dr King
Friday
The Ukraine blame game
There was never anything in the great Ukrainian quid pro quo. It was props and stagecraft
Thursday
Everyone’s climbing aboard the Beyond Meat gravy train
Welcome to the new meal deal
Wednesday
California drinking: forgive them their granola
Homer spoke of the ‘wine-dark sea’. He could not, but should, have had a Syrah like this in mind
Tuesday
Tough gospel: the twin cities of Sesame Street and Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood
Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood is the world we have lost: grandparents, honest jobs and Sunday school teachers
Fashion victims: how feminists are betraying Muslim women
In the West, hierarchies of collective privilege and victimhood are more important than individual rights
Monday
The ‘Russians’ of Brighton Beach
The attitude of Jewish ‘Russians’ in America toward Russia is goodbye and good luck. But mostly goodbye
