Lab leaks and the return of X-Files politics
What if the paranoid style in American politics is sometimes correct?
Matt Purple
Matt Purple is the online editor of The Spectator's World edition
Sunday
Monday
Is Biden’s inflated presidency about to burst?
At some point, the President has to confront fiscal reality
Monday
Becoming a father
To be a dad, frankly, is to sometimes feel hapless, or at least peripheral
Friday
How Jon Stewart killed comedy
Stewart became a prominent progressive voice, a pundit screaming into the void
Monday
The rise of the Joels
Men can be just as totalitarian, petty, shrewish, haranguing and busybodied as women
Monday
Why I’m all in for Caitlyn
Americans have an obligation to make California elections as wildly entertaining as possible
Sunday
Boycott corporate America!
It’s conservatives versus woke capitalism
Monday
Matt Gaetz and the death of the Republican sex scandal
Politics has grown more zero-sum and Machiavellian
Wednesday
Please cancel me
It would be good for business
Sunday
The mask is slipping, Dr Fauci…
He’s a cable-news star first and a scientist second
Sunday
Andrew Cuomo: the Princess Di of the Plague
The rise of the New York governor never had anything to do with reality
Monday
Joe Biden’s infantilizing everyman theater
Sending the President back to high school is a charmless and patronizing thing
Monday
Joe Biden, the background-noise president
A lack of concern about government overreach is good news for Biden
Friday
No to policing the world
Biden’s foreign policy is rooted in the mythology of the Cold War
Saturday
MAGA arrives at the last level of the video game
For all the pathetic LARPing that took place on Wednesday, what happened inside the Capitol wasn’t a game
Wednesday
The demise of America has been greatly exaggerated
To be an American is to move ever forward, in pursuit of that ‘more perfect union’
Thursday
The fatwa artists
Twitter mobs are making journalism and literature more boring
Tuesday
Lacking liquor in Northern Virginia
Even closing liquor stores temporarily is dovetailing into a minor if global trend towards prohibition
Wednesday
2020, the Year of the Drunken Uncle
This election is going to annoy people on Twitter, and there are few callings higher than that
Tuesday
Global warning: 2020 Dems are floundering on foreign policy
We must end forever wars, except when Trump tries to end them
