‘We’ve dedicated this issue to the much-discussed but sometimes nebulous subject of “post-liberalism”. The Spectator has always supported liberty and will continue to, but, as Tim Stanley suggests, liberalism may now need saving from itself.’
The US withdrawal doesn’t mean peace in Afghanistan
By Paul Wood
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Digging up reliable etymologies takes a lot of elbow grease
From the Magazine
A Londoner until the age of 35, Chesterton moved to Beaconsfield on a whim
By Dan Hitchens
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If I’m honest with myself, Twitter is the most hardcore addiction I have and it’s also the one that robs me of the most productivity
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Neoliberalism was a ruling-class project that was never popular with working-class citizens
By Michael Lind
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The Ivy League graduates who constitute America’s foreign policy elite think just like Robespierre
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The ghost of Washington past
By Matt Purple
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Liberalism may be a doctrine to organize your society by; it is not a doctrine to live your life by
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America’s colleges are selling themselves to hostile foreign states
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The reaction of most accused men is to say nothing in the hope that the outrage caravan will move on
By Toby Young
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Right now, the death rate from coronavirus in Italy is more than 8 percent
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Some carefully chosen words about what it means to say goodbye
By Toby Harnden
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The modern nation-state has always offered a deal: liberty for protection. America’s liberal state frequently fails to honor its side of the bargain
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Biden’s many errors are tokens of serious mental incapacity
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Books + Arts
In 1974 alone, there were 2,044 bombings in America, with 24 people killed
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Red Sea Spies: The True Story of Mossad’s Fake Diving Resort by Raffi Berg reviewed
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Square Haunting: Five Writers in London Between the Wars by Francesca Wade reviewed
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Migrant City: A New History of London by Panikos Panayi reviewed
By James Evans
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The Meaning of Travel: Philosophers Abroad by Emily Thomas reviewed
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Something of Themselves: Kipling, Kingsley, Conan Doyle and the Boer War by Sarah LeFanu reviewed
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Is there a single image that fits any caption? Perhaps there is…
By Nick Newman
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Banjo virtuoso Béla Fleck has reinvented his instrument and retraced its roots
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The Decadent Society: How We Became the Victims of Our Own Success by Ross Douthat reviewed
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Metternich: Strategist and Visionary by Wolfram Siemann reviewed
By Conrad Black
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Undoubtedly the freshest version of Emma was the one that looks least like it: Clueless
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Life
In the event of the gun confiscation fancied by the Democratic party’s billionaires and its NPR tote-bag carriers, the hinterlands will not submit
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The monkeys have become experts not only at stealing fruit from rooms but also at plundering minibars
By Jeff Mills
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Like a star of the country & western stage, I write because my wife left me and took my dog
By Digby Dent
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Republics have never lived by the commercial principle alone
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What is it about loud American women that makes men like Charlie Glass and myself, two fairer-sex-obsessed males, wince?
By Taki
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For germaphobe Angelenos the coronavirus is scarier than a waiter coming at you with a breadbasket
By Celia Walden
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While his fellow Germans were rounding up résistants, Jünger was visiting Braque and Picasso
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Food and Drink
Seacuterie is a delicious but annoying culinary portmanteau
By Jane Stannus
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Michael took an imaginary draft and did that thoughtful, rabbity connoisseur’s tasting thing with his mouth
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Online carno-forums are growing like mushrooms (which I no longer eat)
By Lauren Chen
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