When the fringe becomes the majority
Joe Rogan and the Canadian truckers are said to be extreme — but compared to what?
Grayson Quay
Grayson Quay is a Spectator World columnist and weekend editor at The Week
Thursday
Monday
Who will win the battle for ‘based’?
From our UK edition
Earlier this week, a pair of right-libertarian journalists announced the launch of their new site, BASEDPolitics. All hell promptly broke loose on right-wing Twitter. In the first editorial for their new site, co-founders Brad Polumbo and Hannah Cox define ‘based’ as ‘upfront, on point, or rooted in true principles.’ That fits pretty well with my understanding
Sunday
Big tech wants us to empathize with robots
They’ve created a serious ethical dilemma for those who wish to defy the woke technocracy
Monday
If Hamilton is cringe, then America is done for
The woke, and a few on the right, are ready to jettison the Founding Fathers
Monday
What’s driving America’s sex recession?
And what does Christianity have to do with it?
The Tudor roots of wokecraft
The Reformation was a top-down affair, an agenda imposed by a cultural and political elite
Tuesday
Abortion has poisoned American politics. Good
This is one issue where the culture war should burn hot
Thursday
Can protectionism bring back my father’s world?
Economically maybe, but culture matters too
Friday
Assisted suicide is the new trans rights
DIY suicide devices show just how far the misguided quest for individual autonomy will go
Wednesday
Is woke Notre-Dame the future of Christianity?
The torched cathedral is being given a coat of secular modernist paint
Friday
I could have been Kyle Rittenhouse
His tragedy shows we need men — and can’t them fall to one political faction or another
Thursday
Travis Scott, satanist?
The TikTok theories are wrong, but the rapper who played on in Houston did indulge in demonic themes
Friday
A little less self-expression, please
What lap dances at a Kentucky high school can teach us about the modern self
Sunday
How to save golf
We can keep what’s best about the game while making it more sustainable and egalitarian
Thursday
Time for conservatives to fall out of love with the suburbs
Left-wing McMansionites are making it impossible to build good housing
Thursday
Biden’s tax credit won’t convince women to have more kids
It might help a little, but the reasons for our low birthrate ultimately run deeper
Wednesday
The green movement flirts with violent sabotage
Pro-lifers could never get away with this
Monday
The battle over abortion has only just begun
If Roe is struck down, pro-lifers have a long culture war ahead of them
Thursday
The Brave New World of ‘sex-positive’ education
We are entering into a decadent dystopia
Sunday
Toxic trads
Nobody is saved by a ‘worldview’
