Reality is enough without Zuckerberg’s metaverse
Our own Dr. Frankenstein wants to innovate the world away — again
Matt Purple
Matt Purple is the online editor of The Spectator's World edition
Friday
Tuesday
Kamala in Paris
America’s most undiplomatic politician heads to France to unwind a diplomatic faux pas
Thursday
I’m a racist, you’re a racist, we are racists all
MSNBC did not handle Glenn Youngkin’s win well
Wednesday
The McAuliffe clown car crashes
His campaign exuded weirdness because Democrats have lost touch
Friday
Long live the New England horror story
America’s most haunted place makes for great storytelling
Tuesday
A new name isn’t enough to save Facebook
From our UK edition
Mark Zuckerberg emerged from his walk-in T-shirt closet last week to make a stunning announcement: Facebook will be changing its name. And while we don’t yet know what the new name will be, I think I may be able to help here. How about this: Boomerware? Or in keeping with Silicon Valley’s penchant for trendy
Monday
Here come the Nineties
The Nineties were the first decade of the 21st century
Sunday
What if America doesn’t want to ‘Build Back Better’?
Biden and company sneer at inflation but the public may not be buying what they’re selling
Wednesday
Urban Meyer and our DIY surveillance state
A coach is humiliated for behaving badly, but maybe not every lout should be caught
Friday
The plague doctor who stole Christmas
Anthony Fauci wants to flatten the curve over the holidays, but Americans are no longer listening
Monday
Setting fire to my house was an act of radical self-love
A response to that New York Times essay defending divorce as empowerment
Thursday
A government of drunken sailors
Shame on Congress and Joe Biden for their gigantic spending packages
Monday
Joe Biden’s history tour from hell
From 1970s gas lines to the 1918 pandemic, where will the President take us next?
Wednesday
A lament for the overtaxed smoker
Democrats prepare to ‘tax the rich’ by whacking cigarettes, but their moralizing is selective
Friday
Don’t condemn Nicki Minaj for her vaccine blasphemy
From our UK edition
Nicki Minaj weighed in on the coronavirus vaccine this week, and the world hasn’t been this relieved since Katy Perry peer-reviewed that swine flu research. For those even more cripplingly out of touch than I am, Minaj is a Trinidadian-American rapper best known for her filthy 2014 single ‘Anaconda.’ Real country anaconda, let me play
Wednesday
Jeopardy! is in trouble
Have enough cleft-toed demisexual non-binary POCs been contestants on Jeopardy!?
Monday
This is not the next American civil war
Joe Biden’s vaccine mandate is wrong and authoritarian, but let’s keep some perspective here
Thursday
9/11 and the war on terror kiddie table
Contra Lindsey Graham, let’s spend this somber anniversary living without fear
Tuesday
Our Handmaid’s Tale hysteria
The dystopian novel doesn’t say what many on the left think it does
Saturday
Biden’s mad-lib bungle
He’s sticking to the mission, even as he throws out his back on every banana peel from here to Jalalabad
