FROM THE MAGAZINE

April 2020

‘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.’

Home

The guns of Alexander

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

By Bill Kauffman

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Place

Lure of the jungle

The monkeys have become experts not only at stealing fruit from rooms but also at plundering minibars

By Jeff Mills

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Humor

A tale of three dogs

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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Faith

No one in Jefferson’s day suspected the contradiction between commerce and education

Republics have never lived by the commercial principle alone

By Chilton Williamson, Jr.

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High Life

My fellow dinner guests made me feel like a combination of Messalina and Lady Macbeth

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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Diary

Celia Walden: the birth of ‘corona kissing’ in LA

For germaphobe Angelenos the coronavirus is scarier than a waiter coming at you with a breadbasket

By Celia Walden

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Place

Epicenes and epicures

While his fellow Germans were rounding up résistants, Jünger was visiting Braque and Picasso

By Benjamin Riley

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