April 2025


Politics March 13, 2025

Cut the bureaucracy — and the chainsaw

When slashing the government means firing a disaster coordinator in Alaska, you start to wonder if MAGA has its priorities in order

Bridget Phetasy

International March 13, 2025

Why is there no campaign to free Boualem Sansal?

The novelist, who is eighty and suffers from cancer, was arrested at Algiers airport on November 16

Hugh Schofield

Politics March 13, 2025

Landlord Trump, the tenants’ best bet

America has been lecturing other nations about how they keep their own houses — if indeed they are their own — for decades

Daniel McCarthy

Business March 13, 2025

Don’t give Amazon license to kill James Bond

If Amazon can learn from its mistakes, our man may yet live to die another day

Madeline Grant

Politics March 13, 2025

DEI another day

The inclusivity movement is now so entrenched even Trump can’t kill it off

Matt Purple

Education March 13, 2025

Seneca’s guide to coping with disaster

Nothing, whether public or private, is stable; the destinies of men no less than of cities are tossed about

Peter Jones

Politics March 13, 2025

The ubiquitous Lara Trump

Don’t be surprised if, come 2032, she tries to become the first woman to break the glass ceiling. And then sings about it

Kara Kennedy

Policy March 13, 2025

Why Trump should chuck the asylum system

A functional state puts its citizenry first

Lionel Shriver

Health March 13, 2025

I was convinced by the cholesterol skeptics

If you are unwilling to take a fistful of pills every day for the rest of your life, RFK Jr. and some medical mavericks will confirm your decision

Paul Wood

Europe March 13, 2025

J.D. Vance didn’t go far enough on Europe

Populist parties of both the right and left have been persecuted by the EU for at least twenty-five years

Rod Liddle

Policy March 13, 2025

America needs talent

How to beat China

Steve Hsu

Media March 13, 2025

Vance Derangement Syndrome

Bret Stephens has once again demonstrated that the Hitler wheeze, though tired, still has a bit of mileage in it

Roger Kimball

Politics March 13, 2025

Neoconservative moment

Trump came into office determined to actually govern — and in foreign policy to break with the past

Scott McConnell

Policy March 13, 2025

The climate has changed on climate change

Trump is likely to be blamed for the implosion of the green agenda, but its collapse long pre-dates his re-ascension

Joel Kotkin

Middle East March 13, 2025

In search of John R. Bradley

The mystery of The Spectator’s man in the Middle East

Lara Prendergast