Identity crisis: how the politics of race will wreck America
Advocating double standards for people on top and everyone else is a bad idea
Biden shouldn’t bow to tyrants like Erdogan
The US has yet to learn how to discipline allies that have gone rogue
Can Joe Biden get real about Russia?
US hostility to Putin may be hardwired. But a little American humility could go a long way
Down with the Intellectual Dark Web
It is a harbinger of ‘dangerous ideas’ that manages at the same time to be utterly unthreatening
The Biden-Putin summit was a diplomatic nothingburger
There were no breakthroughs — but at least, by Putin’s account at least, there was ‘no hostility’ between the two sides
Adios, AUMF
The votes and the stars appear aligned to sweep the authorized use of military force legislation
White House digs deeper on border crisis
The immigration press release they sent out today opens on a couple of whoppers
France is divided on ‘taking the knee’
On Tuesday evening, Les Bleus planned to honor the memory of a man killed by the American police more than a year ago
Biden’s supply chain plan is a step in the right direction
The US needs to be able to produce strategically important products within its own borders
What fresh hell have we brought upon ourselves?
Coronavirus won’t end the moral superiority of the cloistered class
Victoria’s Secret clips its angels’ wings
Supermodels are OUT, soccer players and plus-size women are IN
Florida’s congressional race to the bottom
COVID grifter Rebekah Jones wants to take on alleged ephebophile Matt Gaetz
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Books and Arts
Meghan Markle has demonstrated why children won’t like The Bench
Any sensible tot will hurl it from the cot because of its elephantine agenda
The great betrayal of Ethel Rosenberg
Ethel Rosenberg: An American Tragedy by Anne Sebba reviewed
How Trojan Records conquered the world
The story behind the first and finest anthology of ska, rocksteady and reggae
From the magazine
My ongoing war with the ‘vinfluencers’
I stand by the article I wrote in the April issue of The Spectator about ‘vinfluencers’ and the social-media celebrities who use their looks to sell wine
Paying the price of free speech
The union of fragility and intolerance has given us that curious and malevolent hybrid I have called the crybully
Playboy of the western world
We aren’t living in Hef’s cultured Playboy world anymore; if anything, we are living in Hustler’s nightmare
Take a trip with Hawkwind
Hawkwind played notes from underground, but they had a global influence
EDITORIAL: Joe Biden and the magic money nightmare
It’s unfashionable to worry about inflation. It’s also right
The China model: why is the West imitating Beijing?
It is one thing to compete with China. But the minute we start copying them, we are on the path to perdition
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