My raging case of ‘climate anxiety’
Fear of global warming is freaking out the privileged
Matt Purple
Matt Purple is the online editor of The Spectator's World edition
Monday
Sunday
Pelosi fights, McCarthy flails
House Republicans have a leadership problem
Thursday
One nation under the CDC
Biden’s fight to save his mask mandate is all about power
Monday
Elon Musk and tweeting on a volcano
Blue-checks are freaking out over his offer to buy Twitter — but Weimar this is not
Springtime for Cold War nostalgics
Weariness with, and wariness of, the Cold War was very real and ought to give us pause
Tuesday
Cheers to the American jury system
At a time of elite corruption, panels of ordinary people keep getting it right
Sunday
Our long national slapmare continues
Will Smith is banned from the Oscars as everyone else tries to learn lessons that aren’t there
Wednesday
It’s still Obama’s White House
Barack jokes about ‘Vice President Biden’ but his liberalism is in control
Tuesday
Just whistle while you woke
Disney leans in to identity politics and invites its own demise
Thursday
Biden’s war
From our UK edition
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In this week’s episode: Is Biden’s approach to the war in Ukraine more calculating than it seems? For this week’s cover piece, in this week’s cover piece, Matt Purple examines Biden’s response to the situation in Ukraine. The good, the bad and the gaffs. He joins the podcast along with the founder of Political Human
Biden’s war: does he know what he’s doing?
From our UK edition
Anyone could see that Joe Biden veered off-script during his big speech in Poland. ‘For God’s sake, this man cannot remain in power,’ he said of Vladimir Putin, which sounded a lot like a cry for regime change. Luckily for him, though, and perhaps for world peace, Leon Panetta, a former secretary of defence under
Friday
Ben Sasse is right: no cameras in the Supreme Court
The last thing we need is our justices behaving like senators
Tuesday
Old man yells at gas prices
Joe Biden’s incoherence on energy has contributed to our pain at the pump
Tuesday
When the establishment cries treason
Mitt Romney calls Tulsi Gabbard ‘treasonous’ as war becomes an excuse for the lazy
Friday
Foreign policy is not SimCity
America can’t just point-and-click a no-fly zone into Ukraine
Monday
Vladimir Putin, deep statist
His Russia is not some Trumpist paradise but a tyranny of the security bureaucracy
Wednesday
Ukraine couldn’t save Biden’s State of the Union
From our UK edition
‘We oppose authoritarianism!’ our pundits all cry, before tuning in to watch the American president thunder like a god in front of a room full of clapping animatronic courtiers. Yes, it is State of the Union season here in America, our most North Korean of political traditions. And while hating on the annual address has
Monday
The Cabbage Patch doll authoritarian
Justin Trudeau’s Canada is tyrannical government by the mediocre
Sunday
Man flu is real
Why are men so bad at being sick?
Saturday
American celebrity culture has become exhausting
There are simply too many stars demanding our attention
