South America

Chile turns rightward

The victory of Jose Antonio Kast confirms Latin America’s shift to the right.

Nigel Jones

Intifada

The Bondi Beach shooting was a pogrom

The unhinged hatred for the world’s only Jewish state has reanimated a medieval-like loathing for the Jewish people

Brendan O’Neill

Did the Democrats kill Roomba?

The robot vacuum cleaner firm has filed for bankruptcy – and will be Chinese-owned – after Amazon was blocked from buying it

Neal Pollack

France

Will bromance bloom between Trump and Jordan Bardella?

The 30-year-old president of France’s National Rally said he agrees ‘for the most part’ with Trump’s bleak outlook for Europe

Gavin Mortimer

The Epstein epoch

How the ‘deep state’ enabled Epstein to operate

It would not have been possible without a tight control of information and an unusually incurious populace. Thanks to TV, you had both

Travis Aaroe

NYC

Zohran Mamdani begins radicalizing New York

The Mayor-elect’s transition team plans to change the city

Maud Maron

The Latest

Power to the plebs

How the Roman ranking system actually worked

We are fortunate that our government is organized around principles that the Roman plebs fought so long to establish

Peter Jones

Actress’s notebook

Christmas in Los Angeles and London

The run-ups to Christmas in each city are quite different

Joan Collins

Inside stories

Taki’s life as a writer

Beginning a column for The Spectator was like the first date with a girl you’ve had your eye on for a long time but never had the courage to ask out

Taki

Mind your language

What makes money ‘short?’

Where I get lost is on the stock exchange

Dot Wordsworth

How we cured DEI at the National Institutes of Health

Scientists no longer have to mouth DEI shibboleths to garner funding

Jay Bhattacharya and Matthew J. Memoli

Writers

Culture

Portrait of a frontier life

Train Dreams, often hailed as a ‘miniature masterpiece,’ is not a story of defeat

Veronica Clarke

Cameron Crowe’s cringe magic

The Uncool wants to be as honest as that teenager

Art Tavana

Is there such a thing as right-wing art?

A durable national identity cannot be asserted into being

Jonathan Keeperman

Monet’s Venetian moment

Monet also captured another element of the open air: smog

Diane Cole

Life

How to make an unforgettable Christmas dinner

The pièce de résistance was roast goose with gravy and potatoes in goose fat

Jane Stannus

The rural reality

You can take over your parents’ farm – or local law firm – and make it your own

Gage Klipper

Why winter is the best time for a barbecue

Summer is absolutely the wrong time to get out the smoker

Rich Cromwell

Down with exclamation points!

Part of the problem of contemporary interaction is that our categories are now blurred

Melanie McDonagh

Latest issue

Ukraine

Can Zelensky surrender?

In Ukraine, peace will be a hard sell

Ben Clerkin

AI

Why America must lead on artificial intelligence

The accelerated development of AI is not just a business opportunity but a strategic necessity

Spectator Editorial

Boomer bust

Eclipse of the boomers

If the boomers wanted something, they got it, by force of numbers

Christopher Caldwell

Aldous Huxley

Our brave new world

Aldous Huxley understood quite intuitively that technology begins to enslave us

Max Horder

Walking out

Are America’s women heading for the exit?

Four in ten women want to leave America. But where would they go?

Gavin Mortimer