Travis Aaroe is an assistant editor on The Spectator’s World edition.
How do characters like Jeffrey Epstein come about, really? One way to find out is to read his emails, 20,000 of which were released by the House Oversight Committee in November. What they show us is that people like Epstein were a product of the second half of the 20th century, their existence more or
The online movement has, obliquely, been the best guide to events over the past decade
The general impression in 107 Days is one of listlessness, torpor, a failure to really grasp the stakes of what’s happening
Swift had no effect on the course of the election. She’ll have no effect on birth rates. This is probably for the best
We are often – wrongly – told that MAGA is simply a politics of expediency and national self-interest
His views are fast becoming the consensus, but people still find obscure reasons to oppose the man himself
What Trumpism represents, obliquely, is the final victory of the Buchanan-Perot tendency in national life
His campaign speaks to a generation that’s now made peace with its subordinate position in society
The spat is a sign of the growing pains involved in reassembling this old coalition
Abundance is the old juicebox mafia’s definitive statement to the world in the second Trump era
Unassuming ex-bureaucrats are being parachuted in to do… what?
Not even Trump’s opponents defend the global economic order
The hedge-fund manager and his ilk allowed a state of affairs to develop that only someone like Donald Trump could rescue them from
Never has our understanding of the world been weaker
Uncle Sam’s offer has not been tempting
MAGA’s new adherents have little leverage over the President
