FROM THE MAGAZINE

April 2021

China

Is the Pope a Chinese asset?

The Pontiff has kowtowed to Beijing

By Damian Thompson

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Finance

Show us the money

Why society needs cash

By Ross Clark

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Business

The city that never dies

It’s too soon to write off New York

By Ed Zotti

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Internet

Thirst trap: how ‘vinfluencers’ took over the wine world

I work in wine, but my lip curls involuntarily at pouting influencers

By Lisse Garnett

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Business

Journalism is pure madness

The North American media is in a ‘purity spiral’

By Toby Young

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Middle East

The virus and Isis

What do jihadis think about the COVID-19 pandemic?

By Paul Wood

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Science & Tech

Shame won’t make you quit smoking. Love might

If you’re lucky, you stumble upon people who’d like you around for a long time

By Chadwick Moore

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After a week or two in New Hampshire, I worry that I’m regressing as an adult

I’m duly chastened when my brother suggests I stop sharing memes and let him get this grant written

By Bria Sandford

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Middle East

The dark Prince

A short history of a very modern mercenary

By Kelley Beaucar Vlahos

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Science & Tech

More drugs!

Just what America needs

By Mary Eberstadt

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Internet

Please cancel me

It would be good for business

By Matt Purple

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Science & Tech

Big Dope

A fog of madness, a stinky green cloud, is now descending on America

By Madeleine Kearns

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International

How to overcome the new fear of flying

With few exceptions, almost every single person tried to talk us out of going

By Bridget Phetasy

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China

How China targets Uighur expats in the US

Some prominent activists say they’ve been tracked down several times

By Hollie McKay

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Europe

That’s Zemmour: meet France’s Tucker Carlson

Could the controversial journalist unseat Emmanuel Macron?

By Jonathan Miller

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Science & Tech

The Great Acceleration: why I’m looking forward to the post-COVID age

What is starting today is a new age of technological wonder

By Bruno Maçães

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Middle East

Is the truth about burn pits too toxic?

My brother, his cancer and the political disregard for veterans

By Mary Kate Skehan

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Spectator Editorial

How the border crisis could define Biden’s presidency

The new administration is dangerously addicted to sentimentality

By Spectator Editorial

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Politics

Justice for Derek Chauvin

If you were a juror, would you dare to return a ‘not guilty’ verdict?

By Roger Kimball

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