spectator april 2022

FROM THE MAGAZINE

April 2022

Spectator Editorial

What is conservatism for?

The right is willing to entertain a bewildering range of possibilities these days

By Spectator Editorial

From the Magazine

Return to Hollywood

I think I’ve cornered the market in being a national conservative who actually knows anything about the entertainment industry

By Amanda Milius

From the Magazine

Europe

Marine Le Pen’s last stand?

Crunch time for the darling and demon of the French right

By Kapil Komireddi

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Business

The United States of Uber

What a delight when a driver tells you not to mask up

By Chadwick Moore

From the Magazine

Politics

Joe Biden is winning

Biden is nothing if not spectacularly persistent in the one cause that has animated his entire career

By John R. MacArthur

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Politics

Fight for the right

A symposium on the future of American conservatism

By The Spectator

From the Magazine

Internet

A state of virtual war

Most of us can’t tell the difference between high-quality video games and actual war

By Bridget Phetasy

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Culture

Hollywood, fist-fights and getting canceled

Joan Collins and Taki in conversation

By Joan Collins and Taki

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Education

Was Penelope really a ‘silenced’ woman?

She stands up to her suitors and they admire her trick to delay her marriage

By Peter Jones

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Science & Tech

How science fiction novels read the future

Science fiction can prepare us for what happens next

By Niall Ferguson

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COVID

I’m done being a crazy Covid lady

We can’t sustain this extreme fear forever

By Daniella Greenbaum Davis

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Culture

Why David Mamet went right

The playwright has undergone a conversion. He’s an apostate now

By Oliver Wiseman

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Europe

The last American tourist

How does it feel to be an American tourist in such a tourist-free world?

By Christopher Caldwell

From the Magazine