The monsters we become
From our US edition
Nietzsche was the first to ‘own the libs’
Dominic Green
Friday
Monday
Joe Biden’s digital serfs
From our US edition
Social media has unhinged the voters and bypassed both the rational mind and the rational systems it once created
Friday
Is the War on Terror finally over?
13 min listen
American troops have all but left Afghanistan, months ahead of their 11 September deadline. The country looks ready to fall into a full-scale civil war, with the Taleban overrunning government forces and seeing off local pockets of resistance. Will Biden keep America out, and will he walk away from Iraq too? Freddy Gray speaks to
Monday
Football is more than a religion to the English
From our US edition
The English game has come back to the English in modern, living form
Tuesday
The rights and wrongs of Nikole Hannah-Jones
From our US edition
The liberal arts are neither liberal nor artistic in our universities. They are illiberal and imaginatively barren
Friday
Ayaan Hirsi Ali: I Call It Criminal Race Theory
21 min listen
In this week’s edition of The Green Room, Deputy Editor of The Spectator World edition Dominic Green meets human rights activist, campaigner for classical liberal values, research fellow, founder of the AHA foundation and prolific author Ayaan Hirsi Ali, for a chat about her article in the new edition of The Spectator World edition. In
Raisi’s election confirms the futility of returning to the Iran Deal
From our US edition
Iran’s president-elect is what Hannah Arendt would have called a schreibtischtäter, a ‘desk murderer’
Wednesday
Time to end the MAGA madness
From our US edition
The Republicans need to separate the MAGA from the message
Friday
1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything
16 min listen
In this week’s edition of The Green Room, Deputy Editor of The Spectator’s world edition Dominic Green and co-host Arsalan Mohammad take a look back half a century to 1971, a year currently being explored in a magnificent eight-part documentary series on Apple+ TV. The series goes deep into that epochal year’s music and social
Friday
Hawkwind: a very British tale
18 min listen
In this week’s edition of The Green Room, Deputy Editor of The Spectator’s world edition Dominic Green meets DJ Taylor, who writes in the June edition of Spectator World, about Hawkwind, unlikely champions of the British rock underground. Less a band, more a way of life, the fascinating story of Hawkwind veers from the radicalism
Thursday
Seth Rogen’s Jewish problem
From our US edition
The masters of the algorithm appear unwilling to do anything at all about anti-Jewish racism
The ultimate Dylan mixtape
47 min listen
In this week’s edition of The Green Room, Deputy Editor of The Spectator’s world edition Dominic Green and journalist Arsalan Mohammad celebrate Bob Dylan’s 80th birthday by debating a good old-fashioned mixtape of tunes spanning the old master’s 60-year career (with some background sound effects by Arsalan’s dog). To listen to our selection, head over
Wednesday
America’s race to the bottom
From our US edition
The nation has an anal fixation
Tuesday
Has liberalism gone too far?
27 min listen
In this week’s episode of The Green Room, Deputy Editor of The Spectator’s world edition Dominic Green meets the author Sohrab Ahmari for a chat about his new book, The Unbroken Thread: Discovering The Wisdom Of Tradition In An Age Of Chaos. In it, Ahmari, a writer and New York Post op-ed editor, makes a compelling
Monday
Van Morrison is a sane man in a mad world
From our US edition
The Morrison cancel mob are dancing to the tune of the oligarchy that is trashing American democracy
Friday
Can Democrats criticise Israel?
12 min listen
Apart from former nominee-candidate Andrew Yang, the Democratic Party has remained relatively quiet about the latest escalations in Israel and Gaza. Why won’t the Party comment? Freddy Gray talks to Dominic Green.
Democrats for Hamas
From our US edition
Aspirational racism for the left
Tuesday
Joe Biden, master of puppets?
From our US edition
The left are pulling Biden’s strings
Wednesday
Elena Ferrante’s Italian job
From our US edition
Ferrante was the Flaubert of the Pantsuit Nation, a harbinger of Hillary’s page-turning presidency
Saturday
Philip Eade, Dominic Green, Anshel Pfeffer and Lionel Shriver
32 min listen
On this week’s episode, Philip Eade, biographer to Prince Philip, reads his obituary of the Prince. We’re also joined by Dominic Green, Spectator USA’s Life and Arts Editor, who reads his article on Prince Harry’s new job. Anshel Pfeffer reports on life in Israel under the vaccine passport; and Lionel Shriver on the West’s self-doubt
