FROM THE MAGAZINE

June 2023

Spectator Editorial

The campaign against the Supreme Court’s legitimacy

Our government institutions are in crisis — which is why the Supreme Court is so important

By Spectator Editorial

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Diary

Confessions of a media chronicler

‘The best room I was in the whole week was probably the first car of Amtrak’

By Ben Smith

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Campaign 2024

Inside RFK Jr.’s kooky White House quest

An older generation of Kennedys sold hope. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is offering something weirder

By Rosie Gray

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Politics

Blink and you’ll miss this libertarian moment

The average American is hardly woke. But it’s difficult to cast your eye across the country and see a groundswell for individual liberty either

By Matt Purple

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International

How to stop the flow of guns south

Gunrunning has shot to the top of the US-Mexico agenda

By Ioan Grillo

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Politics

Will DeSantis lose if he runs to the right of Trump?

An anti-Democrat, somewhat anti-Republican and not consistently conservative candidate may be exactly what GOP voters want

By Daniel McCarthy

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Politics

Why won’t conservatives ask Trump tough questions?

If Trump had an ounce of self-awareness, he would not run

By Ann Coulter

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Science & Tech

The legal challenge to assisted suicide

There is nothing to stop an assisted suicide regime once it has been put into place

By Billy McMorris

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Cars

Are electric vehicles really the future?

When it comes to cars, tomorrow can take its good old time in charging ahead

By Teresa Mull

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Media

They wanted to break the internet. It broke them

BuzzFeed, Paper and the click crash of 2023

By Ben Domenech

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Politics

Is America a republic in name only?

We are living posthumous lives amid the shells of the institutions that once animated our political life

By Roger Kimball

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Politics

Can the Heritage Foundation unite the right?

Kevin Roberts wants to return his think tank to the heart of the conservative conversation

By Amber Duke

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Education

Would Aristotle approve of the Guardian’s reparations?

Aristotle argued that justice, which was good, depended on a form of equality

By Peter Jones

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Business

Welcome to the crypto winter

Web3’s true believers are as confident as ever

By Omar L. Gallaga

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Family

Moving house sucks

It’s unsettling to dismantle your life and peek into every nook and cranny after decades of gathering stuff

By Bridget Phetasy

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Books

The afterlife of Christopher Hitchens

Faced with a growing pile of Hitchenalia, the obvious question is ‘why?’

By Oliver Wiseman

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Internet

Has the influencer bubble burst?

The age of the influencer appears to be swiftly coming to an end

By Kara Kennedy

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Middle East

The rise of the golf rebels

LIV Golf keeps upping the stakes in its revolt against the game’s establishment

By Kevin Cook

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Books + Arts

Books

The dauntless spirit of Richard Halliburton

The writer’s forgotten imagination and commitment to exploration merit revival

By Jenna Stocker

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Book Review

The king and queen who saved the British monarchy

A well-researched new biography of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth

By Christopher Sandford

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Book Review

How refugees saved a town in upstate New York

But will the restoration of Utica survive?

By Fred Skulthorp

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Book Review

Inside the world of multilevel marketing

Pyramid schemes work because we all have points of vulnerability

By Katrina Gulliver

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Book Review

Tom Hanks should stick to acting

The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece is as clumsy as its plodding title

By Philip Womack

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Books

Where will the vogue for censoring our best-loved authors lead?

It seems that the ‘revised’ titles are likely to become the norm

By Alexander Larman

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Theater

Bringing back Stephen Sondheim and enduring a new Andrew Lloyd Webber

Bad Cinderella is a pumpkin, while Parade becomes an exercise in emotional torture porn

By Robert S. Erickson

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Music

How Madonna turned pop culture Catholic

On the fortieth anniversary of her debut album, Madonna remains a good Catholic girl at heart

By Mitchell Jackson

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Exhibitions

What makes Berthe Morisot’s nudes so unique?

She provides a new lens to look at Impressionism

By Francesca Peacock

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Art

What museums can learn from contemporary technology

The National Gallery of Art has quietly but steadily undergone a major culture shift

By William Newton

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Life

High Life

New York’s killer cyclists

A total disregard for the law is now acceptable, with bikers openly performing glissandos past very fat and short traffic wardens

By Taki

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London Life

The joy of missing out

One should never complain about not being invited to something

By Cosmo Landesman

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Low Life

I’m going downhill fast

One of Ford Madox Ford’s novels is called A Man Could Stand Up. Well, this one couldn’t

By Jeremy Clarke

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American Life

Michael Cimino’s gift to cinema

Heaven’s Gate is a 200-minute-plus mess of beautiful incoherences and stupefying contradictions

By Bill Kauffman

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Prejudices

The dangers of faux-education

Education on a mass scale is adjusted to and reflective of the limitations of the average citizen’s intellectual abilities and his competency

By Chilton Williamson, Jr.

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Life

Pet portraitist Mimi Vang Olsen marches to the beat of her own drum

For this artist, life is an adventure, not a struggle

By Clarissa Sebag-Montefiore

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Place

Place

Welcome to Ouarzawood, Moroccan desert outpost and set of many major movies

Celebrities flock here to film at the biggest movie studio in Africa

By Adrian Brune

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Place

Las Vegas’s Mob Museum revels in the city’s gritty past

Sin City is proud of its inglorious past

By Jim Buckley

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Food and Drink

Food

Italian cooking lessons in the home of a Venetian chef

Rosa ‘loves to be surrounded by nice people who like to eat well and offer free smiles all the time’

By Madeleine Kearns

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Drink

The charm of Toronto’s Park Hyatt Writer’s Room

It’s like dropping into the opening scene of an Agatha Christie story: anything could happen

By Jane Stannus

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Drink

A parting salute to the swizzle stick

Alone or in company, a good swizzle stick encourages deliberateness

By Timothy Jacobson

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Food

How to become a ‘salad freak’

I’ve always aspired to be the kind of woman who can ‘just toss something together,’ making a light, fresh, delicious dish with ease

By Mary Kate Skehan

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Drink

What to do when you only have modest wine on hand for a decorous guest

Horace knew what to do: apprise him frankly of what to expect and drop a hopeful hint

By Roger Kimball

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Food

The quest for child-free dining

Banning children from restaurants is something that pops up every few years, like the Olympics or a cicada infestation

By Neal Pollack

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And Finally

And Finally

Eating alone is underrated

I relish the time with my own thoughts

By Hannah Tomes

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And Finally

The ‘lived experience’ of ‘Inclusion Ambassadors’ is laughable

They claim to have ‘relevant lived experience’ by which to alter classic literature

By Dot Wordsworth

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