FROM THE MAGAZINE

October 2022

Science & Tech

Nuclear power is the answer to our energy woes

Once the bête noire of energy, nuclear has been experiencing a renaissance of late

By Emmet Penney

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Spectator Editorial

The Biden ultimatum

Joe Biden launched into midterm campaigning with a strategy of demonization

By Spectator Editorial

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The last days of Liz Cheney

Everyone knew Liz Cheney was going to lose the primary

By James Pogue

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Campaign 2022

Will the GOP blow the midterms?

The Republican enthusiasm advantage has all but disappeared

By Amber Duke

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Campaign 2022

Here come the Hispanic Republicans

Latinos are voting exactly like an earlier wave of immigrants

By Patrick Ruffini

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Campaign 2022

Dobbs won’t save the Democrats

In a choice between abortion absolutism and a variety of approaches, variety will prevail

By Daniel McCarthy

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Politics

Joe Biden and the Sovietization of America

What does it mean that he’s demonized half the country?

By Roger Kimball

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Campaign 2022

Where the Tea Party went wrong

Can the right’s new populists avoid its mistakes?

By Ben Domenech

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Politics

Connecticut and the rise of blue-state MAGA Republicans

Caught between Trump and wanting conservatives who can win

By Matt Purple

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Europe

Queen Elizabeth II made a difference — to Britain and the world

Her commitment to duty was remarkable

By Alexander Larman

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Culture

Inside Meghan Markle’s royal flop

The Duke and Duchess are being frozen out of Hollywood, one red-carpet event at a time

By Kara Kennedy

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Culture

So much for #MeToo

The movement was meant to change sexual politics forever. What happened?

By Phoebe Maltz Bovy

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China

America’s chip war with China

The US is working to limit China’s access to semiconductors — but is that a good idea?

By Francis Pike

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What will the media look like after the #Resistance?

The journalistic backlash to Trump led to a backlash of its own

By Jesse Singal

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Education

How the ancients treated gout

Medical problems come and go in the media, and at the moment the flavor of the month appears to be gout

By Peter Jones

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Culture

I wanted to leave California before it was cool

We can’t pretend that the problems ravaging the state are new

By Bridget Phetasy

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Culture

Why is New York parenting so competitive?

‘Wait, your daughter isn’t enrolled in a single language class yet?’

By Josie Cox

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Business

Rupert Murdoch goes west

Succession meets Yellowstone in Dillon, Montana

By Hannah Moore

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Politics

Andrew Yang’s doomed revolution

The Forward Party wants to become the first successful political venture founded on etiquette

By Billy McMorris

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Books + Arts

Books

Free expression after the Rushdie attack

It was an assault on literary free speech itself

By Alexander Larman

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Book Review

Bob Dylan, the song and dance man

A new biography captures his entire world

By Anne Margaret Daniel

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Book Review

Exploring the decline of Britain’s birds

Patrick Galbraith’s latest goes searching for kittiwakes and grouses

By Andrew McKean

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Books

Has the American novel abandoned God?

Our literary life today speaks of a crisis of faith

By Fergus Butler-Gallie

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Book Review

The Soviets brought far from home

Kilometer 101 explores political undesirables who were exiled from Moscow

By Francesca Peacock

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Book Review

A haunting novel remembers 1990s Ukraine

Explored commonalities between Ukraine and Russia have since erupted into war

By Will Collins

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Exhibitions

John Singer Sargent comes to Spain

The artist created his own synthetic Spanish vision

By James Panero

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Exhibitions

Kimono Style is more than just East-meets-West fashion

It is also a glimpse into a mystifying period of Japanese history

By Jane Coombs

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Film

Bullet Train is an unabashedly manly palette cleanser

An action movie can be good or woke, but not both

By Peter Tonguette

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Film

Bodies Bodies Bodies cancels its characters to death

It’s a successful satire of cancel culture that never hectors or patronizes

By Nicky Otis Smith

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Music

A visit to Louis Armstrong’s old home

In any assessment of jazz’s founding fathers, he has to stand as the most influential figure

By Jacob Heilbrunn

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Theater

Weighing in on the unauthorized Hamilton

It was probably inevitable that the culture wars would come for the show

By Robert S. Erickson

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Television

The deeply human Walking Dead

The show made us feel we could find light in that which set us apart from savagery

By James McCain

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Life

High Life

The thrill of sailing rough seas

The good thing is the discomfort, which separates the men from the girls

By Taki

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Place

A seaplane out of Manhattan

In the awfulness of LaGuardia Airport, one terminal stands out as a reminder of better days

By James Panero

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Low Life

My evening as a rapacious capitalist

We played Monopoly with focus and seriousness

By Jeremy Clarke

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Place

Trapping gators in the Everglades

You cast a ‘huge-ass hook’ into the water, snag the creature, then ‘pull like a bull’

By Teresa Mull

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London Life

How I learned to stop worrying and love self-promotion

Meet the new me: the shameless, self-promoting media slut that I’m trying to become

By Cosmo Landesman

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American Life

Keeping Syracuse time

This year, to celebrate my wife’s birthday, I showed her a traffic light

By Bill Kauffman

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Prejudices

The slumber of the Anglosphere

Can democracy in the West survive its attenuation in the US and UK?

By Chilton Williamson, Jr.

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Place

Spain’s caminos come calling

There is a haunting beauty to their desolate vistas, an intimidatingly brutal type of splendor

By James Jeffrey

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Food and Drink

Drink

Remembering Orsini’s

By the time I hit the ground running in 1956, Orsini’s was jumping

By Taki

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Food

Keto no-no

Perhaps the key to keto’s success is that it simply delays you from eating with prolonged meal prep

By Mary Kate Skehan

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Drink

Roger Scruton knew what wine was for

The English philosopher was an eloquent apologist for pleasure

By Roger Kimball

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Food

Are you man enough to eat raw offal?

A new wave of offal-lovers is reviving an interest in organs

By Gus Carter

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Food

Cake for a world turned upside down

When asked what was for dessert, I said, ‘Oh, it’s a topsy-turvy cake, just like this crazy world we live in now’

By Calla Jones Corner

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Food

The postmodern horror of zucchini ‘apple’ crumble

Nothing is sacred anymore — not even traditional apple crumble

By Jane Stannus

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And Finally

And Finally

What do ‘catcalls’ have to do with cats?

It was not until the 1980s that the catcall escaped from the theater to the street

By Dot Wordsworth

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And Finally

A visit to the Renaissance Faire

Who needs the metaverse when you can be transported to another time and place?

By Teresa Mull

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