DEI another day
The inclusivity movement is now so entrenched even Trump can’t kill it off
Matt Purple
Matt Purple is the online editor of The Spectator's World edition
Thursday
Monday
I watched everything except the Super Bowl
If you don’t want to take in the big game, what else is on TV?
Tuesday
The case for practicing electoral abstinence
Lord knows this campaign knew how to tempt me
Sunday
Blink and you’ll miss this libertarian moment
The average American is hardly woke. But it’s difficult to cast your eye across the country and see a groundswell for individual liberty either
Thursday
Good riddance to the metaverse
The project’s signal achievement was to light untold quantities of money on fire
Monday
Why didn’t America’s Covid hypocrites pay a price?
The UK is in a rage at Boris Johnson yet Gavin Newsom walks free
Friday
Yawn: your childhood just died again
When the transgressive becomes normal, the normal will become transgressive
Tuesday
The Donald Trump Show’s arrest plot twist just isn’t convincing
After seven seasons, it may be time for this political thriller to end
Wednesday
The GOP’s new debt ceiling fusionism
Republicans are trying to wring budget cuts out of Trump-era culture wars, but can it be done?
Monday
It’s the end of the Buttigieg world as we know it
How is having Mayor Pete on the ground in East Palestine helping anything?
What’s in a name?
Yes, that one in the byline is my own — and I couldn’t abandon it if I tried
The magnetism of His Dark Materials
Pullman’s color palette is of vibrant grays. He rejects absolute goods and evils
Thursday
Dear God, not this national divorce thing again
The distinctly Twitter idea of breaking up America won’t go away
Wednesday
Joe Biden got the reception he deserved at his State of the Union speech
From our UK edition
At first, it sounded like Joe Biden’s 2023 State of the Union address was going to be another snoozer. Out of the gate came clanging all the usual paeans to bipartisanship: ‘To my Republican friends,’ Biden said, ‘if we could work together in the last Congress, there is no reason we can’t work together in
Wednesday
Save American tipping culture
The problem is that if everything merits a tip, then nothing merits a tip
Wednesday
The generation war and why millennials are drifting leftward
Trump-backing boomers are suffering a backlash from their children
Friday
Can booze break the gridlock in Congress?
After a zillion failed speaker votes, there may be only one hope left
Thursday
What is the point of the Republican Party anymore?
After eleven speaker votes and as many years of political struggles, it feels like a wake-up moment
Wednesday
Dry January is cruel
From our UK edition
Allow me to set the scene for you. It is the coldest month of the year and also the darkest. The sun sets not long after lunch, ruling out any after-work revelry more exciting than testing your antifreeze. It’s too chilly to go for a walk; even a trip to the gym looms like an
Friday
The Covid hysterics’ bleak midwinter
What could be worse than an unmasked and normal Christmas?
