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‘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.’
A waste of 19 years
The US withdrawal doesn’t mean peace in Afghanistan
By Paul Wood
From the Magazine
What do elbows have to do with fighting coronavirus?
Digging up reliable etymologies takes a lot of elbow grease
From the Magazine
The fight to save G.K. Chesterton’s home from demolition
A Londoner until the age of 35, Chesterton moved to Beaconsfield on a whim
By Dan Hitchens
From the Magazine
Giving up Twitter for Lent went well
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
From the Magazine
Right on: Boris Johnson’s Britain and the new political reality
Neoliberalism was a ruling-class project that was never popular with working-class citizens
By Michael Lind
From the Magazine
Foreign policy is in a straitjacket
The Ivy League graduates who constitute America’s foreign policy elite think just like Robespierre
From the Magazine
Joe Biden and the vanished political age
The ghost of Washington past
By Matt Purple
From the Magazine
Constrained by freedom: what do post-liberals want?
Liberalism may be a doctrine to organize your society by; it is not a doctrine to live your life by
From the Magazine
Degrees of control
America’s colleges are selling themselves to hostile foreign states
From the Magazine
Social justice isn’t always just
The reaction of most accused men is to say nothing in the hope that the outrage caravan will move on
By Toby Young
From the Magazine
Living in an Italy consumed by fear
Right now, the death rate from coronavirus in Italy is more than 8 percent
From the Magazine
A final farewell
Some carefully chosen words about what it means to say goodbye
By Toby Harnden
From the Magazine
The weak response to coronavirus is a symptom of the decay of the liberal state
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
From the Magazine
Time to scrap the Goldwater Rule
Biden’s many errors are tokens of serious mental incapacity
From the Magazine
